shadow of paradisE
Sahar al-Sawaf, an Iraqi immigrant living in the USA, uses photographs and hand-painted 35mm film to depict family who are alive, dead or missing in Iraq, 30 years after Operation Desert Storm.
SYNOPSIS
SELECTED SCREENINGS:
Uppsala Short Film Festival | Sweden | 2021
Aesthetica Short Film Festival | UK | 2021
DOC NYC | New York | 2021
Arab Film Festival | California | 2021
Tricky Women / Tricky Realities | Austria | 2022
Animafest Zagreb | Croatia | 2022
Premiered at the 57th Chicago International Film Festival
TRT: 7 minutes
2021
written & directed by:SAHAR AL-SAWAF & THOMAS HELMAN