BAGHDAD IN MY SHADOW
by Samir
synopsis
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.
| international title: | Baghdad in my Shadow |
| original title: | Baghdad in my Shadow |
| country: | Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom, Iraq |
| sales agent: | Global Screen GmbH (a brand of Telepool GmbH) |
| year: | 2019 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Samir |
| film run: | 109' |
| release date: | DE 30/09/2021, ES 29/12/2021 |
| screenplay: | Samir, Furat al Jamil |
| cast: | Haytham Abdulrazaq, Zahraa Ghandour, Waseem Abbas, Shervin Alenabi, Maxim Mehmet, Kae Bahar |
| cinematography by: | The Chau Ngo |
| film editing: | Jann Anderegg |
| art director: | Petra Klimek |
| costumes designer: | Ulrike Scharfschwerdt |
| music: | Walter Mair |
| producer: | Joël Jent |
| co-producer: | Christine Kiauk, Herbert Schwering, Christine Alderson, Stina Werenfels |
| production: | Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Coin Film GmbH, Ipso Facto Films, SRF - Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, Aleppo Films |
| distributor: | Filmcoopi, Arsenal Filmverleih, Surtsey Films |
