Oday Rasheed

[3][4] The troupe put on performances merging scenes from writers such as Henry Miller and the beat poets Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg.

[12] In 2020, Underexposure was featured as part of the “Theatre of Operations – The Gulf War 1991-2011” Exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art.

[14] Qarantina examines the realities of postwar Iraq through the unlikely interactions of a killer and a family that make their residence in an abandoned building.

The film follows an Iraqi immigrant seeking political asylum and an ambitious American woman, who start to build their life together in New York.

If You See Something is produced by Brian Newman, Frank Hall Green, Stephanie Roush & Emily McCann Lesser.

The cast includes Jess Jacobs, Reed Birney, Adam Bakri, Lucy Owen, Krystina Alabado, Nasser Faris.

It follows Adam, a 12 years old Iraqi farm boy, who tries to stop time in him, while continuing to observe its rowdy passage in the lives of others.

The main themes present in Oday Rasheed’s work are: surviving war mentally and emotionally, confronting the patriarchal society in Iraq, immigration, and the poetic aspect and limitless ability for the human being.

The Hollywood Reporter writes: ″In "Qarantina," his slow-moving, beautiful lensed second feature set in contemporary Baghdad, Iraqi director Oday Rasheed again describes life in the depressing, angst-ridden city where tanks, bombs and gunfire have become part of the urban landscape.″[19] Ned Parker and Salar Jaff write for the LA times: ″The [main] character has been plucked from the wreckage of Baghdad’s eight years of occupation and civil war — conjured by writer and director Oday Rasheed in a haunting new film called "Qarantina"....

I want a friend.″[20] Naomi Wolf for Al Jazeera writes: ″One of Iraq’s only working filmmakers, Oday Rasheed – whose brilliant film Underexposure (2005) followed a group of characters in Baghdad after the United States-led invasion in 2003… His embrace of the right to his truth, which is the artist’s task, is nonetheless remarkable, given that he is working in an environment in which part of the creative process involves trying to stay alive.″ [21]