Hanging Gardens
2022When 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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Wissam Diyaa
as Taha
Jawad Al Shakarji
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)
Hassan Hadi
as Abu Laith
Wathaq Mahdi Al Lamy
as Abu Mustafa
Atia Jbara Al-Darraji
as Sheikh
Mustaf Al Tawel
as Saif
Abbas ElNoury
as Pharmacist
Aala'a Qassem Hashem
as Alaa
Mohanad Hassan Al Sudany
as Angry Customer
Ali Al Karkhy
as Muezzin (voice)