On the 8th of June 2017 the filming for Samir's latest feature film «Baghdad in My Shadow» will commence. After his successful and touching documentary «Iraqi Odyssey» he will now set about a new feature film for which he co-wrote the script with Furat Al Jamil.
The film is a Swiss-German-English coproduction by Dschoint Ventschr, Coin Film, and Ipso Facto Films. The main characters will be portrayed by first-rate Iraqi actors such as Haytham Al Jadah (Taufiq), Zahraa Ghandour (Amal), and Awatif Salman (Samira). Moreover, the English actor Daniel Adegboyega (Elliot) and the German Maxim Mehmet (Sven) will be part of the cast as well.
Content:
Taufiq, an old failed writer, Amal, a wife hiding and Muhanad, a clandestine gay IT-specialist all meet at „Abu Nawas“, a cosy café and popular hangout for Iraqi exiles in London. Instigated by the preacher of a salafist mosque, the writer’s nephew Nasseer, a fanatic religious youth, attacks his uncle and turns everyone’s life upside down.
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