In the early fifties, during the big wave of immigration from Iraq, several musicians arrived in Israel who were considered real stars in the Arabic world of music. In this new land, no one had ever heard of them.

Later on, these musicians constituted the basis of the Israeli Broadcasting Authority’s Arabic Orchestra, a legendary orchestra that never broke through the cultural ghetto to which it was designated from the start.

After the orchestra disbanded in the eighties, those musicians were forgotten as if they’d never existed.

A moment before it was too late, they returned to the stage for a series of performances before a generation that still remembered their greatness and a generation that had only heard of them.

 The life stories of some of these musicians are bound around this performance. Stories of love, missed opportunities, old age and a great passion for one thing – music, music and more music.
 

"Baghdad Bandstand" - Eyal Halfon's excellent movie, is not a local version of "Buena Vista Social Club". … Halfon lets his heroes talk, sing and  play wonderful music that isn't heard anymore…" (Jack Mizrahi, Ha’ir Newspaper, Israel)