Hanging Gardens
2022
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 Aldaradji
Writers:
Ahmed Yassin Aldaradji, Margaret Glover
Awards:
5 wins & 6 nominations
Production:
N/A
Country:
Iraq, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Egypt, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia
