FLJS Film Screening: Letters from Baghdad

Letters from Baghdad tells the extraordinary story of Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire of the 20th Century, who shaped the modern Middle East in ways that still reverberate today. More influential than Lawrence of Arabia, Bell helped draw the borders of Iraq, yet until now, she has been largely written out of history. In this acclaimed documentary, Tilda Swinton's flawless narrative performance, combined with stunningly restored archive footage and Bell’s own photography, beautifully evoke both a lost time and place and the unfairly forgotten story of Bell's uncompromising, buccaneering exploits. Praise for Letters from Baghdad: "a mesmerizinly immersive plunge into a time, place and cultural zeitgeist that feel simultaneously far away and of the moment Washington Post