Completed - ARABIC - Drama - 110 minutes
In a residential neighborhood in Baghdad in 2006, a community of ordinary people try to live their everyday lives amidst the threat of sectarian violence. At the heart of these intersecting stories is Sara, a single mother and novelist.
Year of production : 2021 Director(s) : Maysoon PACHACHI Writer(s) : Maysoon PACHACHI, Irada AL-JABBOURI Cast : Darina AL JOUNDI, Zaydun KHALAF, Amed HASHIMI Producer(s) : Talal AL-MUHANNA (Oxymoron Films), Patrice NEZAN (Les Contes Modernes), Alexander RIS (NEUE MEDIOPOLIS FILMPRODUKTION), Maysoon PACHACHI (OXYMORON FILMS)
Baghdad, winter, 2006. A time of extreme sectarian violence and nightly curfews. The story unfolds on Christmas Eve and follows the lives of several residents in a typically mixed neighborhood. At the heart of these intersecting, simultaneously unfolding stories is SARA, a novelist who is unable to write any longer due to the overwhelming tragedy that surrounds her and her 7-year old daughter Reema. When her closest friend, SABIHA, a Christian, is forced into exile, she gradually regains her sense of self and begins to find the will to resist and to write again. But her hopeful outlook may be short-lived when the sudden pre-dawn execution of Saddam Hussein just before the New Year plunges everyone around her into a heightened state of fear. Like the other residents of the neighborhood, Sara struggles to sustain a fragile hope in the face of overwhelming destruction and, sometimes, like a miracle, life still blossoms.
Country(ies) : IRAQ, UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE, KUWAIT, GERMANY, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, QATAR Financing plan : Les Contes Modernes (France); Neuemediopolis Filmproduktion (Germany): Oxymoron Films (UK).Eurimages / CNC / BFI / MDM Start of shooting : February 2019
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