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Completed - ARABIC, GERMAN, ENGLISH - Drama - 108 minutes

Log Line

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)

Synopsis

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.

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Country(ies) : GERMANY, SWITZERLAND, UNITED KINGDOM

Festivals and Awards

72. Locarno Festival 2019
15. Festival du Film Français d'Helvétie 2019
53. International Hofer Filmtage 2019
29. Weltfilmtage Thusis 2019
Iraqisms Beirut 2019
24. Arabian Sights Film Festival Washington DC 2019


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