Completed - ARABIC, GERMAN, ENGLISH - Drama - 108 minutes
A failed author, a wife in hiding, a clandestine gay IT-specialist meet in an Iraqi café in London. Incited by a radical Sheik, the author’s nephew attacks them and turns their lives upside down.
Year of production : 2019 Director(s) : Samir Cast : Haytham ABDULRAZAQ, Zahraa GHANDOUR, Waseem ABBAS, Shervin ALENABI, Awatif SALMAN, Kae BAHAR, Ali DAEEM, Farid ELOUARDI, Andrew BUCHAN, Maxim MEHMET, Kerry FOX Producer(s) : Joel JENT (Dschoint Ventschr)
as: The strong-willed architect AMAL - on the run from her ex-husband - works at Café Abu Nawas, which belongs to a Kurdish activist and is a popular meeting place for Iraqis in exile. Her friends, the poet TAUFIQ and the IT specialist MUHANAD, come by almost every day. Taufiq has been taking care of his nephew NASSEER since his brother's death, but he is powerless to watch his nephew change under the influence of radical Islamist preacher Sheikh YASSIN, as Nasseer begins to rebel against him as an atheist. Muhanad, on the other hand, left Baghdad only recently to escape the threat that homosexuals face there. But even here and in front of his friends, he doesn't dare to publicly stand by his English lover. The small community is in danger when Amal's ex-husband appears in London and Sheikh Yassin simultaneously seduces Taufiq's nephew Nasseer to take action against the "godless" in Café Abu Nawas.
Country(ies) : GERMANY, SWITZERLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
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72. Locarno Festival 201915. Festival du Film Français d'Helvétie 201953. International Hofer Filmtage 201929. Weltfilmtage Thusis 2019Iraqisms Beirut 201924. Arabian Sights Film Festival Washington DC 2019