In the Sands of Babylon

In the Sands of Babylon is a 2013 Iraqi, British, Dutch drama film directed by Mohamed AlDaradji, Varietys Middle Eastern Filmmaker of the year 2010.

1991 Gulf War Ibrahim, an Iraqi soldier, has escaped from Kuwait as the Iraqi Army retreats. Facing the perilous journey home, he must cross the southern desert a chaotic nomans land between Saddams Regime and American Cross Fire. Whilst unrest spreads across the country, he is captured by the Republican Guard and cast into Saddams infamous prisons, suspected of being a traitor. 2013 In search of answers about the past and Ibrahims journey, the Director of the film encounters three people A photographer with a painful secret, a farmer who hides his scars to forget and an exprisoner whos humanity was savagely taken from him. By unravelling the courageous and tragic secrets of these people, the Director seeks to reveal the truth behind Ibrahims story. Through the past and the present, fiction and reality, he revisits a fateful climax in the battlefields of Babylon. As Ibrahims fate seems written, the Iraqi people are uprising beyond the prison walls, instilling hope in those held captive, that the freedom they long for beckons.Despite not having a score on either Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic, the film has a very high 8.2 rating on IMDb, based on 86 reviews, making it the websites third best reviewed British film 2013, and the tenth best reviewed British film of 2013 overall. ........

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