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DIRECTOR: MOHAMED AL–DARADJI
IRAQ
Filmed in Baghdad in the aftermath of the U.S. "shock and awe" invasion, its cast and crew subject to kidnappings from both sides, Ahlaam may be the first feature film from post–Saddam Iraq. The war–ravaged city, with its street battles and wrecked buildings, provides an astonishing immediacy to this story about a young woman, Ahlaam, confined to an asylum after seeing her husband kidnapped by Saddam's thugs on their wedding day. Her hospital destroyed in the U.S. bombardment, Ahlaam wanders the streets on what becomes an increasingly nightmarish, hallucinatory odyssey. Meanwhile, her relatives, aided by an idealistic young doctor, search frantically for her amid the chaos. Al–Daradji, who fled to Holland in 1995, but found himself drawn irresistibly back to his homeland after the fall of Saddam, has fashioned a moving, haunting film. ( 110 min )
First Feature Film.
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