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Ordinary heroes make extraordinary history.

Arash Nahandian by Arash Nahandian
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In the streets of Baghdad, rage erupted as young voices rose up against a stagnant system. Men and women filled city squares in their thousands, united in vision yet diverse in story. Among them were Milo and Khalili, witnesses to both hope and its absence, who now welcome us into their lives through film.

Director Maja Tschumi threads their experiences like a skilled weaver joining fine silk. We meet Milo, passionate yet confined, who found freedom briefly in protest against a conservative family’s wrath. Now disguised as a brother to escape home, her feminism survives underground. Working in disguise, she counsels others, this oasis amid tensions deepening daily.

Yet through private scenes, we feel her optimism, cooking and conversing late into the night with cherished friend Avin. Their bond reminds me how community nourishes dreams in darkness. Now living by wits in a rigid world, Milo remains determined that her voice shall not be silenced. Though circumstance clouds her country’s future, with allies like Avin and art like this film, she keeps alive her vision of change.

The Heart within Her Home

Milo lived with fire in her soul, a passion for justice that drove her into the protest streets, grasping for change. The revolution sang through the air, and Milo added her voice to its song. But dark days soon followed for this daring daughter, within the walls constraining her life.

Her conservative family saw only disobedience where Milo saw democracy. In punishment, they locked away her independent spirit, burning all signs of the woman within; her clothes vanished in flame, and identity papers were ruined to root her in this place. Even sunlight was denied, as the outside  world went on without her.

Yet no cage can hold the mind when hope remains alight. In shelter of night and disguise as a brother, Milo now walks streets where before she merely dreamed. Guiding other souls with wisdom won from hardship, she brings comfort in whispers through back alleys and doors left ajar, her feminism still a flame others gather close.

Though her family and frontier now stand against her, this daughter does not surrender. Like revolution’s rise, she endures through solidarity and strength of spirit, awaiting sunrise on free horizons out of reach but never from her heart. In that place, no law or lock can enter; Milo’s fire will light the way for journeys yet to come.

Revolution Through a Lens

In the streets of Baghdad, another story was unfolding. While Milo faced confinement, Khalili lifted his camera to capture a revolution. For the young photographer, his lens became a frontline pass into demonstrations that defiance could not hold back. Night and day, Khalili documented all the uprising had to offer—its people’s power and passions, the chaos discord brings. Where others saw only danger, his viewfinder framed a future worth fighting for.

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His footage bears witness like an eye that never closed. We share the swell of crowds yelling change and feel bullets fly too near as tear gas stings. Through Khalili’s intimate shots, revolution sings its song of hope, however brief, before brute force silences its verses. Though image quality varies by chance events, none deter this activist’s art from seeking truth amid turmoil. His camera gives voice where fear commands others to be silent.

But no recorder of history escapes the costs of their testimony. When protests collapsed, solace could not shelter Khalili from the trauma’s depths. His post-uprising interviews convey a man broken not by wounds alone but by the by the loss of what he saw the uprising nearly grasp. Though healed now and starting life anew, those primal scenes from the frontlines never lose their grip. A lens that bores such memories takes a heavy toll, though through it we too may feel revolution’s power and passion burn, if only for a moment, on film.

Partners in Storytelling

Director Maja Tschumi knew that for her film to find its heart, Milo and Khalili must help shape their story. Unseen, their revolution raged, yet these youth knew the truth no outsider could. So scripts and scenes grew not from one vision alone, but from conversations where shared pasts spoke loudest. What began as Maja’s glimpse into hope born and dashed became, through partnership, a portrait wider still.

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Together, they chose which moments reclaimed light—that tent city joy before fear seized its stage or Milo’s camaraderie where family proved coldest. Blending fact and fiction, real and played, yet each scene rang solely of their lives. No line was crossed; they did not will, and no image was exploited without consent. Truth kept its home in them, while Maja lent her skills to their truth-broadcasting.

So scenes unfold seamlessly, viewers guessing not which were which. Who sees what comrades see or shares what friends share? Authenticity stems not from the lens alone, but from subjects guiding where it points and seeing. Their trust lets Maja tell Iraq’s youth as Iraq’s youth demand—with care but also courage, honoring lives of those who’ve known too little peace. In creative kinship lies Immortals‘ heart—and hope that understanding, not division, builds the futures these three worked to share.

Forgotten Dreams

Milo and Khalili had dared to hope—that, in protest’s roar, Iraq’s future might transform. But revolution’s song is now silent; each must decide life’s path alone. For Milo, escaping weighs the heaviest. Where family demands a captive life, freedom calls loudest. Yet leaving friend Avin hurts the deepest. I hope that Khalili healing finds.

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His camera once captured the uprising’s heart. But memories poison the mind, and the body still bears the battle’s wounds. Wedlock, some say, means refuge, yet family demands a form of cage. Through photography, though, life’s heartbeat stays. Yet shadowland this city has grown, where violence any day may strike again. Each ponders what tomorrow will bring, yet in facing fears together, some can find solace.

Though the revolution’s first flush has now faded, these youth remain unbowed. Where oppression’s grip stays tight, defiance sparks in proud souls yet. And should chance one day bring new winds of change, know Milo and Khalili will lead revolution’s song again, that other youth like them need not forget dreams left for dead too soon. This city’s sorrows run too deep, and its people’s spirits are strong. While lives like theirs still hold hope aloft, the future’s phoenix may rise from the ashes of hopes that fell.

Voices of a Generation

Through Milo and Khalili’s compelling tales, Immortals shines vital light on lives too often obscured. In youth’s faces, we see dreams deferred and battles hard-fought. While revolution’s cry grew dim, spirits here refused to yield.

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Their world was glimpsed, and we grasped the daily challenges youth in Iraq face. Families, once havens, now wield oppression’s tools. Society’s bonds also bind with rules restricting basic freedoms. Censorship and fear deter open discourse. Yet still, these souls risk all; their determined dignity and rights should be heard.

Beyond borders, their struggle strikes chords. In any land where young voices go uncaged while injustice holds sway, viewers find parallels. Immortals capture protest’s fever but are more of a reminder that such passions persist wherever dissent faces punishment instead of response. Its protagonists make intimate a crisis too easily reduced to thinkpieces’ abstraction.

Because of contributions by Milo and Khalili, this film ensures history records the revolution’s heart from those who gave it life. Their gift assures a generation’s stand lives on, an inspiration wherever the struggle for humanity’s future must continue. In affirming resistance’s power through art, Immortals achieves timelessness—a documentary that lights the way.

Voices That Echo

This film achieves a rarest of feats: it brings us into the lives of people we may never meet in a country seemingly whole worlds apart. Yet through Milo and Khalil’s eyes, we witness struggles that feel profoundly familiar. Their passion and pain make the space between us collapse.

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Tschumi gifts us moments that are both elegantly beautiful and starkly bleak. But her direction ensures the humanity in each scene remains foremost. She lets real people take hold of real events, guiding viewers with subtle care. We watch not as outsiders but as observers welcomed to understand lives distinct yet intrinsically joined to our own.

As credits roll, Milo and Khalili’s courage leaves ripples that are difficult to shake. Their determination to claim dignity from forces that would deny it is an inspiration wherever days feel darkest. In letting these souls bring 2019’s hopes and truths to light, immortals plant seeds that may yet sprout change if caring hearts receive what these young campaigners planted.

Most of all, their story stirs appreciation for each private struggle against societal silence. As long as spirits like Milo and Khalili endure, refusing to be written out of history, hope remains that one day all may live unconstrained in their fullness. Their voices will echo onward, a reminder of humanity’s capacity to overcome even the bleakest adversity through compassion and community.

The Review

Immortals

9 Score

Immortals provides an intimate glimpse into lives shaped by turmoil yet sustained by courage and friendship. Tschumi crafts a powerful tribute to youthful idealism through her empathetic portrait of Milo and Khalili's ongoing pursuit of justice. Their moving story reminds us of storytelling's power to bring overlooked voices from the periphery to the world's center.

PROS

  • Compelling characters in Milo and Khalili who drive an intimate narrative
  • Provides a window into life in modern Iraq that educates while avoiding objectification.
  • Artful blend of vérité footage, recreations, and first-person perspectives
  • Subtly conveys complex themes around activism, oppression, and finding purpose.

CONS

  • Some social and political context around events in Iraq may be unclear for western audiences.
  • Doesn't directly address certain tensions like Sunni/Shia divisions.
  • Conclusion leaves uncertainty around characters' futures.

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Tags: DocumentaryFeaturedImmortalsMaja TschumiManouk RoussyalianMelak MahdiMohammed Al KhaliliNadine Lüchinger
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