Letters from Baghdad

The Political Work of Gertrude Bell

Voiced and executive produced by Tilda Swinton, LETTERS FROM BAGHDAD is a visually rich, beautifully crafted documentary that tells the story of Gertrude Bell, who shaped the modern Middle East in ways that still reverberate today.

Official Selection at the BFI London Film Festival and DOC NYC Film Festival

"A carefully researched documentary that uses an extraordinary wealth of appealing archival footage accompanied by Tilda Swinton's voiceover as Bell." - Jay Weissberg, The Variety

"You emerge from the film with a divided heart: thrilled to hear of a woman who, ignoring the dictates of the age, filled her days to overflowing, yet ashamed to measure your own days and to find them, by comparison, hollow and bare." - Anthony Lane, The New Yorker