Hiding Saddam Hussein tells the story of Alaa Namiq, who hid Hussein, the former president of Iraq, for 235 days in a village south of Tikrit as thousands of US troops searched for him after he was toppled in 2003.
Rudaw Media Network is one of the main partners of the film and holds the rights of its distribution in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq, and its trailer will be released for the first time by Rudaw.
The documentary will be screened in the “Frontlight” section of IDFA on Monday.
“The aim of producing this documentary is to tell the true story of the pit where Saddam Hussein was found. Only one person can tell the story – the one who dug the whole for Saddam himself,” film director Mustafa, who lives in Norway and has been producing the documentary for over ten years, told Rudaw.
IDFA Profile: Hiding Saddam Hussein
The Norwegian Ministry of Culture issued a statement congratulating Mustafa and saying that it expects the film to resonate internationally and attract the attention of film critics.
IDFA 2023 will be held from November 8 to November 19 in Amsterdam.
On March 20, 2003, the US and its allies launched an operation to end Hussein’s rule in Iraq. He disappeared and was found by US forces in a pit near his hometown of Tikrit on December 13, 2003. He was executed on December 30, 2006.
