Hanging Gardens

1h 44m
Drama
6.3

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.

Cast

Wissam Diyaa
Taha
Jawad Al Shukrchi
Al Haji
Hussain Muhammad Jalil
As'ad
Akram Mazen Ali
Amir
Karar Shaaban Abdel Sada
Rasul
Ali Farhan
Emad
Mahdi Al Fartousi
Tahseen
Jafer Al Sheikh
American Mister
Israa Adel
Girl Next Door
Vanessa Kanaan
Salwah (voice)
Hassan Hadi
Abu Laith
Wathaq Mahdi Al Lamy
Abu Mustafa
Atia Jbara Al-Darraji
Sheikh
Mustaf Al Tawel
Saif
Abbas Al-Nouri
Pharmacist
Aala'a Qassem Hashem
Alaa
Mohanad Hassan Al Sudany
Angry Customer
Ali Al Karkhy
Muezzin (voice)

Crew

Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji
Director, Screenplay
Margaret Glover
Screenplay
Kamal El Mallakh
Editor
Duraid Munajim
Director of Photography

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