Hanging Gardens (2022)

6.3/10 104 min Drama

Overview

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

Jawad Al Shukrchi

Al Haji

Abbas Al-Nouri

Pharmacist

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