Format: Feature Film
Co-Production: UAE , France , Netherlands, Iraq , Palestine , Egypt , Uk , Qatar
Synopsis:
Northern Iraq, 2003. 3 weeks after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
AHMED a 12-year-old Kurdish boy begrudgingly follows in the shadow of his grandmother…
On hearing news that prisoners of war have been found alive in the South, she is determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Ahmed’s father, who never returned from the Gulf War 1991.
From the mountains of North to the sands of Babylon, they hitches rides with strangers and cross paths with fellow pilgrims on all too similar journeys. Struggling to understand his grandmother’s search, Ahmed follows in the forgotten footsteps of a father he never knew.
This journey will lead the boy to come of age.
Directed by : Mohamed Al-Daradji