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Baghdad Messi (Iraq)  w/ Q&A
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Baghdad Messi (Iraq)  w/ Q&A

Baghdad Messi (Iraq) w/ Q&A

11/14/2024
Thu 7:00 PM
The Culver Theater - Event Space
9500 Culver Blvd, Culver City
from $10.00

Genre: Drama

Country: Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Iraq

Year: 2023

Duration: 85mins

Director: Sahim Omar Kalifa

Language(s): Arabic, Kurdish

Subtitles: English

Producer: Hendrik Verthé, Kobe Van Steenberghe

Principal Cast: Ahmed Mohammed Adullah, Zahraa Ghandour, Atheer Adel, Safa Najem, Adil Abdulrahman, Hussein Hassan, Yakob Ferman, Ibrahim Hashim, Younis Ahmed, Errol Trotman-Harewood, Neima Abdo

Synopsis

Iraq. Hamoudi (11) lives for football and his dream of being as outstanding as his hero Lionel Messi. One day, when he is unintentionally involved in an attack, he wakes up in hospital with only one leg. While his parents do everything to keep the family safe, Hamoudi fights to achieve his dream in spite of everything.

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Baghdad Messi (Iraq) w/ Q&A
The Culver Theater - Event Space
11/14/2024
Thu 7:00 PM
The Culver Theater - Event Space
9500 Culver Blvd, Culver City
from $10.00

Asian World Film Festival

The Asian World Film Festival (AWFF), founded by Kyrgyz public figure Sadyk Sher-Niyaz and overseen by Executive & Program Director Georges N. Chamchoum, brings the very best of a broad selection of Asian World cinema to Los Angeles to draw greater recognition to the region's wealth of filmmakers and strengthen ties between the Asian and Hollywood film industries. Uniting through cross-cultural collaboration, the Festival champions films from over 50 countries across Asia, spanning from Turkey to Japan and from Russia to India and South-East Asia. The Festival is unique in that it predominantly screens Oscar and Golden Globe submissions for Best International Feature Film and Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language respectively. All films that participate in the Festival will have a unique chance to be guided through the challenging awards season and showcased to members of the Motion Picture Academy, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and all Guilds for enhanced exposure, media attention and awards consideration. AWFF is a non-profit organization under Aitysh USA.

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