Hanging Garden (2022)

Original title

جنائن معلقة

Directed by

Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji

Genre

drama film

Country

Occupied Palestinian territories, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 57m

Rated

13+

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young boy works as a garbage collector in Baghdad, trying to find a better life. A strange discovery in a pile of trash forces him to make a difficult choice.

grittyintimatesomberurbanquietly tensevisceralatmosphericgrounded

What happens

Hanging Gardens (Arabic: جنائن معلقة, romanized: Janain mualaqa) is a 2022 drama film directed by Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji who co-wrote the screenplay with Margaret Glover. It is a co-production between Iraq, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Kingdom. The film premiered in the Horizons section at the 79th Venice International Film Festival, and was the first Iraqi film ever to be selected by the Venice Festival. It was later awarded best film at the 2022 Red Sea International Film Festival. It was selected as the Iraqi entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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