Maytham Jbara

Producer at Purattu Film Center /Trash Production
Filmmaker and Producer

Toronto, Canada

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About Maytham

Is an Iraqi film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer, who grew up in a family of filmmakers in Baghdad. He studied Cinema and Television at the College of Fine Arts, University of Baghdad, and took numerous workshops for filmmaking, editing, art of lighting, screenwriting and film production, through which he developed a broad set of skills. In 2010,
Maytham started working as a cinematographer at the Iraqi Independent Film Center. His first work was as a camera assistant on Mohammed Al Darraji’s feature Son of Babylon. He then worked as a D.O.P. on three feature-length and ten short films.
Many of these films have been nominated and awarded at the leading film festivals, including Cannes, Venice, Berlin, TIFF, Sundance, Malmo, Raindance and others.

Among his notable credits are films Path of Maryam (2016), The Journey (2017), and the most recent ones Haifa Street (2019) and Mosul 980 (2019). He made his debut as a writer and a director with his fiction short film Qadr, which is currently in post-production.
Most of Maytham’s work focuses on humanitarian issues and freedom in his home country, Iraq. People and their lives have always been important to him and are the central part of his works. As a filmmaker he is drawn to give the audience a real life feeling and bring them closer to a character
and their story to make it a personal story. Because of his career, Maytham has been threatened by a radical group and was forced to leave Iraq. He is
currently based in Toronto, Canada, where he is actively working on several projects as a producer and, at any opportunity, aspires to help and teach young filmmakers.

Gender:
Male

Hair:
Medium

Hair color:
Black

Eyes:
Brown

Ethnicity:
Middle Eastern

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Hanging Gardens (0000 - 2022)
Film by Ishtar Iraq Production Associate Producer When a young Iraqi rubbish picker rescues an American sex doll from the Baghdad dumps, he crosses into a perilous red zone, where friends become enemies and nothing is certain in an explosive mix of love, war and madness.
The Ambulance (2021)
Film (short) by Abdulrahman Hameed / Trash Production Producer A young man falls victim to a terrorist assault by Al-Qaeda, during the period of sectarian violence in Iraq in 2006. Adel is a 23-year-old law student who gets shot, which was meant to kill him, along with a group of other students. He ends up being thrown out to the curb and then transported by an ambulance driven by a 40-year-old man, who stops to buy some cigarettes on the way to the hospital and leaves his door unlocked. Two boys steal the ambulance. Ahmed, 12, and Hussein, 16, are vendors who roam around on a donkey selling junk. They are excited with their new ride until they discover that the ambulance is filled with corpses. Amongst these corpses is Adel, who will die soon, if he does not get medical attention immediately. Can the children save Adel?
Take My hand to Heaven (2021)
Film by OSAMAH KHAIRULLAH / Trash Production Producer Nour, a 20-year-old student, is displaced from Baghdad to South Iraq because of the sectarian violence to stay at his uncle’s house. He meets Amjad, a 21-year-old hairdresser, who becomes his only friend and who falls in love with him. When Amjaad shows his sexual lust to Nour, he rejects it not being a gay and having love for him only as a friend. Nour frequently visits Najim, a 48-year-old owner of a print shop. Desperate, without a parent, he asks Najim to talk to the dean at the college as his guardian to not get expelled. Over time, Nour gets close with Najim, seeing a father in him and appreciating his support, but Najim starts fancying and approaching Nour in a sexual way and eventually seduces him to have sex. When Nour finds out that Najim is Amjad’s father, he secludes himself from his friend. And after being attacked and raped by a local guy Wisam and his unsuccessful attempt of suicide, Nour decides to rebel against everything around him and becomes a playboy. One day Amjad discovers that his father took his money and spent on Nour. Late night, he goes to his shop to face him, but instead sees the most dreadful scene in his life.
THE MOTHER IS BACK (2021)
Film (short) by Rami Al Shattri / Trash Production (Drama and Family) Producer A 25-year-old Yazidi woman Ellan is kidnapped from her village in North Iraq by ISIS, just a week after she married Mohammed. Upon her release she returns home with a newborn child from the ISIS father. Mohammed is happy about her return, but he cannot accept the ISIS child and orders Ellan to kill her son. Now, back home in her room with the baby in her arms and the family awaiting outside, Ellan is pushed to kill her own child. She makes several attempts, but can she take away the life of her own child?
The hospital (2021)
by Trash Production / Muslim Habeeb Producer Half past nine in the morning at the Baghdad Medical City Hospital, a 25-year-old cleaner Bassam is trying to approach a new resident doctor Sarah, who just started working at the emergency. He wants to get her attention and tell her about his feelings but with no luck. Suddenly, the hospital gets flooded by many victims of a big explosion. Everything is in chaos. Blood and pain surrounded the young doctor. But will the war brutalities prevent Bassam from his heart pursuit?
Mosul 980 (2019)
Film Cinematographer
Path of Maryam (2016)
Film Art director
In My Mother's Arms (2011)
Film Cinematographer
Qadr
Film (short) by Trash Production (Drama and War) Director/producer Qadr knocks on her mother’s closed bedroom door, trying to open it and calling for her mom with no response. Meanwhile, Iqbal is reading the Quran. She hears Qadr’s voice and knocking, that filled up the house. She tries to call her husband but no response. Iqbal knows that her life has come to an end, she has to complete the mission. But the presence of her daughter Qadr, asking her to open the door, becomes the barrier between her and her mission. Can Iqbal get out to rescue her daughter and avoid her ISIS prince after she realized that everything she believed in was a lie?