Hanging Gardens

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

Wissam Diyaa

as Taha

Jawad Al Shukrchi

as Al Haji

Hussain Muhammad Jalil

as As'ad

Akram Mazen Ali

as Amir

Karar Shaaban Abdel Sada

as Rasul

Ali Farhan

as Emad

Mahdi Al Fartousi

as Tahseen

Jafer Al Sheikh

as American Mister

Israa Adel

as Girl Next Door

Vanessa Kanaan

as Salwah (voice)

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