HANGING GARDENS (2022)

Synopsis:

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.
Writer: Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji, Margaret Glover.
Country: Iraq, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Egypt.
Production: : Ishtar Iraq Film Production (Huda Al Kadhimi), Margaret Glover, Odeh Films (May Odeh), Ahmed Yassin, Film Clinic (Mohamed Hefzy), Daniel Ziskind.

Funds:

Arab Fund for Arts and Culture – AFAC, Final Cut award in post-production, an initiative at Venice festival 2022.