"Director: Mohamed Al Daradji"

• Son of Babylon | DVD | (11/04/2011) from £7.94   |  Saving you £7.05 (47.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Northern Iraq 2003. Two weeks after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Ahmed a 12-year-old 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. From the mountains of Kurdistan to the sands of Babylon they hitch rides from 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.

• Ahlaam | DVD | (13/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Baghdad 2003. Confusion uncertainty and death engulf the bombed out ruins of a psychiatric asylum. Voyeuristically we move between the past and the present of the lives of the Iraqis caught up in the maelstrom and entangled in the chaos of American 'Shock and Awe'. Ahlaam is a bewildered young woman confined to the asylum after witnessing the violent arrest of her fianc''e on their wedding day. Deeply hurt she lives a confined existence in a state of delusion. Brutally damaged at the hands of the regime Ahlaam is left with little hope only a dream... Dr. Medhi a hard working idealist exiled to work at the institution despite his many talents longs for a free Iraq where the human quest for truth and goodness will triumph over the brutality he witnesses... but will Medhi's spirit survive the devastation and his father's political past? Ali a patient and former soldier once a proudly optimistic man eager to serve his country is now a shell-shocked shadow of his former self traumatised by the American bombing of his platoon. Ali's fearlessness brought about by his insanity in the war zone may be the only hope the hospital has as he roams the terrorised gun ridden streets looking for surviving patients. Ali's patriotism may save others but will he save himself?