Hanging Gardens (2022)
1h 57m
Running Time
August 31, 2022Release Date
Hanging Gardens (2022)
1h 57m
Running Time
August 31, 2022Release Date
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Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Wissam Diyaa
Taha
Jawad Al Shakarji
Al Haji
Hussain Muhammad Jalil
Asad
Akram Mazen Ali
Amir
Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji
Director
Margaret Glover
Writer
May Odeh
Producer
Suad Bushnaq
Composer
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Hanging Gardens (Arabic: جنائن معلقة, romanized: Janain mualaqa) is a 2022 drama film directed by Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji who co-wrote with Margaret Glover. It is a co-production between Iraq, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Kingdom.The film premiered in the Horizons section at the 79th Venice International Film Festival, and it was the first Iraqi film ever to be selected by the Venice Festival. It was later awarded best film at the 2022 Red Sea International Film Festival. It was selected as the Iraqi entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards.