Son of Babylon

Son of Babylon Arabic is a 2010 Iraqi drama film directed, produced and cowritten by Mohamed AlDaradji, Varietys Middle Eastern Filmmaker of the year 2010.

The film is set initially in Northern Iraq, 2003, two weeks after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Ahmed, a 12yearold 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, Ahmeds father, who never returned from the Gulf war in 1991. 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 grandmothers search, Ahmed follows in the forgotten footsteps of a father he never knew.

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