Morocco’s ‘The Blue Caftan’ wins a hat-trick of awards.Iraq director Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji’s Hanging Gardens has been named best film at the 7th Critics Awards for Arab Films, which will celebrate its winners in Cannes today.Al Daradji’s directorial feature debut premiered at Venice and went on to win best film at the Red Sea International Film Festival in December.
The film follows a 12-year-old boy living as a rubbish picker in the dumps of Baghdad, nicknamed the ‘hanging gardens’, who finds a discarded US sex doll.
True Colours handles sales.This year’s edition of the awards,…
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