HANGING GARDENS (2022)
117 min - Fiction
When As’ad, a 12-year-old rubbish picker, adopts an American sex doll from the Baghdad dumps, he crosses into a perilous red zone, finding himself caught in the crossfire between abusive forces of commercialism and fundamentalism in a world where defenders of humanism have lost their power. He embraces the courage it takes to not just survive, but live.
Director: Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji.Arab Fund for Arts and Culture – AFAC, Final Cut award in post-production, an initiative at Venice festival 2022.