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The Journey

Spring Grants 2016

Synopsis

Baghdad, 30 December, 2006. Sara, an unassuming young woman, enters Baghdad’s central train station with sinister intentions. On the edge of committing a destructive and heinous act, Sara finds her plans are drastically altered, complicated by an unwanted and awkward encounter with Salam, a self-assured and flirtatious salesman. In an unfortunate twist of fate, Salam becomes a hostage in Sara’s confused and deluded master plan to blow up the station. Caught up in the chaos of a situation he cannot begin to comprehend, Salam desperately tries to understand Sara’s motives and to sway her decision. In a moment of reflection, Sara is given the opportunity to learn about the lives she has been so willing to destroy for others.

Credits

Director

Mohamed Jabarah Al Daradji

Screenwriter

Mohamed Jabarah Al Daradji, Isabelle Stead

Producer

Mohamed Jabarah Al Daradji, Isabelle Stead

About the Director

Mohamed Jabarah Al-Daradji studied in Iraq and the Netherlands before travelling to the UK to complete his Masters degree in Cinematography and Directing at the Northern Film School in Leeds, where he won the prestigious Kodak Student Commercial Award for Cinematography. In 2003, he returned to Iraq to make his first feature film, ‘Ahlaam’, which screened at more than 125 international film festivals and received more than 30 awards, as well as Academy Award and Golden Globe consideration. His multi-award-winning ‘Son of Babylon’ (2010) screened at Sundance and the Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Amnesty Film Award and the Peace Prize. Al-Daradji was named ‘Variety’ magazine’s Middle Eastern Filmmaker of the Year after his documentary ‘In My Mother’s Arms’ (2010) premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won the Asia-Pacific Screen Academy Award for Best Documentary. ‘In the Sands of Babylon’ (2013) screened at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Arab Film.

Awards and Festival History

Festivals

TIFF 2017, Contemporary World Cinema (WP)
Busan IFF 2017, A Window on Asian Cinema
BFI London FF 2017
Dubai IFF 2017
MALMO Arab FF 2018

Awards

Iraq’s Official Submission for the 2019 Academy Awards - 2018 Best Foreign Language Film Race

Contacts

• Main Contact

  Mohamed Al Daradji

  Company: 

  Iraq Al-Rafidain

  Phone: 

  +9647705529744 /+9647802449289

  Email: 

  mohamed@humanfilm.co.uk

• Main Contact

  Isabelle Stead

  Company: 

  Human Film

  Phone: 

  +441132425030 / +447835378454

  Email: 

  isabelle@humanfilm.co.uk

• Main Contact

  Mohamed Jabarah Al Daradji

  Company: 

  Iraq Al-Rafidain

  Phone: 

  +964 770 552 9744

  Email: 

  mohamed@humanfilm.co.uk

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