Hanging Gardens (2022)

Director: Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji

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)