كلمة المخرج

ملاحظة المنتج

In our film, the journey of development and research lasted more than three years in various cities in the marshlands - southern Iraq. Now we are in an advanced stage of production / rough cut. We started shooting in September 2021 regarding scenes of drought and climate change. We scheduled the film to be finished by November 2024. The film's team consists of the director of photography, Mohanad Hasan Al-Sudani, with whom we are cooperating with him for the third time in filming our documentaries. The sound recordist is Hassan Al-Eidani, and the editor, Noura Nefzi. The film was produced by the Ishtar Iraq Film Production Company in its Iraqi and Jordanian branches. The project received a production grant from the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture - AFAC, Culture Resources, and Red Sea Film Fund, IDFA Bertha Fund. Our production partner is Huma Gupta who plays the role of an influential producer on the project, who will lead the impact campaign to save the marshes and draw stakeholders and organizations working in the field of environment and climate change. By her hard work and the experience of her teaching, she will be the appropriate choice for this campaign in the production, post-production and distribution stages. She is the principal investigator of the MIT Climate Futures, Cities Past Lab.

فيلموغرافيا المنتج

Huda Al-Kadhimi is the founder of Ishtar Iraq Film Production, which specializes in international co-productions and filming in Iraq and Jordan. Her films include "Mosul 980" (Berlinale) and most recently "Hanging Gardens" (Venice), Was the first Iraq film at Orizzonti Extra 2022. Huda began her career in filmmaking through the Jordan Royal Film Commission and Iraqi Independent Film Center - Baghdad workshops from 2006-2017. Later, Huda built her physical production experience working as an Assistant Director and Line Producer on features such as "The Journey" (Amazon Prime) by Mohamed Al-Daradji, and "Haifa Street" (Netflix) by Mohanad Hayal and "Our River.. Our Sky" by Maysoon Pachachi (Netflix).