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Hanging Gardens

Hanging Gardens

2022•1h 44m•6.3/10
Drama

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6.3/10(3)

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

Odeh Films, Purattu Film Production, Ishtar Iraq Film Production, Film Clinic, Jazz Films, Melon City for Artistic Production and Distribution

Language

AR

Status

Released

Release Date

Trailers & Videos

Cast

Wissam Diyaa

Taha

Jawad Al Shukrchi

Jawad Al Shukrchi

Al Haji

Hussain Muhammad Jalil

As'ad

Akram Mazen Ali

Amir

Karar Shaaban Abdel Sada

Rasul

Ali Farhan

Emad

Mahdi Al Fartousi

Tahseen

Jafer Al Sheikh

American Mister

Israa Adel

Girl Next Door

Vanessa Kanaan

Salwah (voice)

Hassan Hadi

Abu Laith

Wathaq Mahdi Al Lamy

Abu Mustafa

Atia Jbara Al-Darraji

Sheikh

Mustaf Al Tawel

Saif

Abbas Al-Nouri

Abbas Al-Nouri

Pharmacist

Aala'a Qassem Hashem

Alaa

Mohanad Hassan Al Sudany

Angry Customer

Ali Al Karkhy

Muezzin (voice)

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