Hanging Gardens
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1hr
44mins
Directed by
Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji,
Starring
Wissam Diyaa,
Jawad Al Shakarji,
Hussain Muhammad Jalil,
Akram Mazen Ali
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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.