Hanging Gardens

Directed by Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji

Written by Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji, Margaret Glover

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

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Wissam Diyaa

Taha

Jawad Al Shukrchi

Al Haji

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Hussain Muhammad Jalil

As'ad

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Akram Mazen Ali

Amir

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Karar Shaaban Abdel Sada

Rasul

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Ali Farhan

Emad

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Mahdi Al Fartousi

Tahseen

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Jafer Al Sheikh

American Mister

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Israa Adel

Girl Next Door

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Vanessa Kanaan

Salwah (voice)

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Hassan Hadi

Abu Laith

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Wathaq Mahdi Al Lamy

Abu Mustafa