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| Film Title | Ahlaam |
| Director | Mohamad Al Daradji |
| Country | Iraqi film - Arab film |
| Year | 2005 |
| Genre | Feature Film |
| Length | 107 min |
| Language | Arabic |
| Subtitles | Albanian, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish |
| DVD region | 2 |
| Synopsis | Ahlaam is one of the first feature films from post-Saddam Iraq filmed in the midst of the mayhem of the occupation of Baghdad with its cast and crew subjected to kidnappings and gunfire. This provides the film with an astonishing immediacy as its main character, an escapee from a lunatic asylum, wonders the streets in search of her fiancé, lost to Saddam’s men on their wedding day. Meanwhile, her relatives and her doctor search frantically for her amidst the chaos. |
| Director Profile | Director Mohamed Al Daradji was born in Baghdad, Iraq. His first feature film was Ahlaam, shot over four months in Baghdad in 2004, while the war was going on. His experiences in filming in Iraq were in some sense more dramatic than the film itself, and were captured in his documentary War, Love, God and Madness (2008). His latest film, Son of Babylon (2009), won the Amnesty International Film Prize and the Peace Film Award at the Berlin International Film Festival (2010), and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival (2010). |
| Reviews | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0854114/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2008/apr/22/howwepickedthebestfilm http://www.britfilms.com/britishfilms/catalogue/browse/?id=56A27B101afab186A7QoX28AC93D |
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