Hanging Gardens
Synopsis
When As’ad and his friend, Amir (14), discover the doll can speak, they teach her the language of seduction in Arabic and set her to work. Business rockets, raising their profile lucratively with local teens and dangerously with the local patriarch’s enforcers. As’ad questions their exploitation of the doll, yet before he can save her from further degradation, she’s kidnapped. As’ad and Amir go after the prime suspect, only to discover that he’s turned informant.
The patriarch has As’ad and Amir kidnapped so that he can exact his own cruel and humiliating punishments. As’ad survives to complete the journey he began and reconcile himself to the choices he’s made on his own terms.
Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2022 - World premiere
Details
- Year
- 2022
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 117 min
- Format
- 4K 2.35
- Director
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Ahmed Yassin Al-Daradji
- Producer
- Huda Al Kadhimi, Margaret Glover, May Odeh
- Co-Producer
- Mohamed Hefzy, Daniel Ziskind, Ahmed Yassin
- Editor
- Kamal El Mallakh
- Screenwriter
- Ahmed Yassin Al-Daradji, Margaret Glover
- Director of Photography
- Duraid Munajim
- Production Designer
- Michael Rakowitz
- Sound
- Rana Eid
- Composer
- Suad Bushnaq
- Principal cast
- Wissam Diyaa Jawad Al Shakarji Hussain Muhammad Jalil Akram Mazen Ali
- Associate Producer
- Maytham Jbara
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Iraq, Palestinian Territories, Egypt, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia co-production
Ishtar Film Production (IQ), Odeh Films (PS), Purattu Film Ltd (UK)
Purattu Film Ltd
Ahmed Yassin129 Hide Tower
Regency Street
London
SW1P 4AB
Sales Company
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