The Blood of My Brother

Director: Andrew Berends
Cast: Sara Simmonds, Jake McDorman, Matt Vodvarka
Runtime: 81 min
Country: USA/Iraq
Language: English

The Blood Of My Brother takes a behind the scenes view of one Iraqi family's struggle to survive amidst the carnage of the growing Shia insurgency. Nineteen-year-old Ibrahim struggles to provide for his family when his older brother is shot and killed by an American patrol. With scenes of fighting and death on the streets of Baghdad, THE BLOOD OF MY BROTHER is the closest most viewers will ever come to being in Iraq; kneeling in prayer amidst a thousand Muslim worshippers, feeling the roar of low-flying Apaches, riding atop a sixty-ton tank, driving with masked resistance fighters to attack American positions, fleeing the threat of an overwhelming response, the blood in the street, a tank on fire, or the cold, distant stare of a dead Iraqi fighter..