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Hanging Gardens
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Hanging Gardens

2022-08-31 · 104 min · ★ 6.3

Drama

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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Production details

Directors
Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji
Production companies
Odeh Films, Purattu Film Production, Ishtar Iraq Film Production, Film Clinic, Jazz Films, Melon City for Artistic Production and Distribution
Countries
Egypt, Iraq, Palestinian Territory, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom
Status
Released

Top Cast

Wissam DiyaaTaha
Jawad Al ShukrchiJawad Al ShukrchiAl Haji
Hussain Muhammad JalilAs'ad
Akram Mazen AliAmir
Karar Shaaban Abdel SadaRasul
Ali FarhanEmad
Mahdi Al FartousiTahseen
Jafer Al SheikhAmerican Mister
Israa AdelGirl Next Door
Vanessa KanaanSalwah (voice)
Hassan HadiAbu Laith
Wathaq Mahdi Al LamyAbu Mustafa
Atia Jbara Al-DarrajiSheikh
Mustaf Al TawelSaif
Abbas Al-NouriAbbas Al-NouriPharmacist
Aala'a Qassem HashemAlaa
Mohanad Hassan Al SudanyAngry Customer
Ali Al KarkhyMuezzin (voice)

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