Our Best Historic Screenings​

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With our usual seasons cancelled the Committee

is making weekly recommendations of films to

watch that were screened during the last

20 years which were extremely well received

by members and guests.

This week's recommendation

Letters from Baghdad

USA, UK, France

2016, 95 mins.

English, Arabic languages

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Directed by Sabine Krayenbühl and

Zeva Oelbaum

Letters from Bagdad was the 775th film screened by RFS on 28th November2017.

The film was the fifth equal ranked film of Season 55 (equal fifth with Outside The Law), it got an approval mark of 89% from those attending; from Season 55 we have also already featured the higher ranked films, in order: A Man Called Ove, Julieta, Tangerines and The Other Side of Hope.

As a young woman, Gertrude Lowthian Bell, sometimes called the "female" Lawrence of Arabia, travelled extensively throughout the Middle East from Palestine to Syria to Iraq (then Mesopotamia), producing maps and scholarly works and becoming fluent in Arabic and Persian. Her archaeological and writing talents were eventually recognised by British Military Intelligence. She became a diplomat and spy wielding significant political power in British Imperial policy across the Middle East.

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Full film notes available in the Twickenham

& Richmond Tribune here.

Letters from Baghdad is available to be streamed on BFI Player and disks are available from Amazon, eBay, CeX and other retailers.

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SEASON 57 PROGRAMME

10 SEPTEMBER 2019 

TO 16 JUNE 2020

TWICKENHAM FESTIVAL

Wild Rose is our

Twickenham Festival

screening on

16 June 2020

SEASON DOCUMENTATION