The talented Hamoudi is an 11-year-old boy with a passion for soccer and an ultimate dream to one day reach the level of his idol Lionel Messi. The day Hamoudi is caught in a horrific suicide attempt, he wakes up severely injured in a hospital. As his parents struggle to keep the family safe, Hamoudi is determined to fight for his shattered dream.
Amal
Em Bagdá Vive em Mim, um jovem fanático ataca os amigos do seu tio em um café aconchegante de Londres, que é um ponto de encontro para exilados iraquianos. Após esse evento traumático, as vidas de quem estavam no local se transformam totalmente.
Sara
Sara enters Baghdad station with sinister intentions for its reopening ceremony. As she braces to commit an unthinkable act, her plans are drastically altered by an unwanted and awkward encounter with Salam, a self-assured and flirtatious salesman. With Salam now hostage to Sara’s confused and deluded plan, he battles desperately to appeal to her humanity and sway her decision. In a moment of consideration and with her convictions crumbling before her, Sara is given the opportunity to witness the life and innocence she was so willing to destroy. But is this a second chance or an admission of guilt?
Director
Born in the home of a Baghdad midwife, actor/director Zahraa witnessed violence against women from early on. Now she’s pointing the camera in search for a lost girl and to confront lifelong shame and fear alongside three exceptional women in her life.
Director
An experimental short film that expresses a subjective experience during quarantine and was made as an attempt to find ourselves while living an ongoing semi-isolated life. Dream-like imagery reflects our thoughts and slow paced lifestyle, and connects our isolated reality to the seemingly distant world we see in the media – one where many women have spent their entire lives in a compulsory quarantine as a result of unfair social systems.
