Private Project

Farah

Logline: Farah is a ten-year old little girl. She envisions in her mind a way to bring her dead father back from cancer to life again, but then she surprises us.

Synopsis: Farah, a little girl and she is a ten years old. In one day, before she is going to her school in Baghdad, passes through to her father's room to imagine in her mind a way to bring her dead father back from cancer to life again.
But suddenly, Farah stops and she takes her bag to go to the school and surprise us that she used to do that every day.

  • Farah Adnan
    Director
  • Al-Hassan Ahmed
    Writer
  • Mustafa Hathal
    Writer
  • Iraqi Independent Film Center
    Producer
  • Goethe Institute
    Producer
  • French Institute
    Producer
  • French Embassy
    Producer
  • German Embassy
    Producer
  • Bastille-Tayran Film
    Producer
  • Zahra'a Asaad
    Key Cast
    "Farah"
  • Mohammed AL-Badrway
    Key Cast
    "Father"
  • Shahad Ali Jbarah
    Key Cast
    "Mother"
  • Project Type:
    Feature, Short
  • Runtime:
    6 minutes 2 seconds
  • Country of Origin:
    Iraq
  • Country of Filming:
    Iraq
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital, 35mm
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Farah Adnan

An Iraqi journalist and filmmaker. Worked and dealt with many Iraqi, Arab and foreign media outlets, and I always strive to be a comprehensive journalist, including my eyes as the director’s eye, to direct the first short cinematic film, entitled “Farah”.
Participated in the (Mobile Cinema) competition sponsored by the French-German cultural project and Iraqi Independent Film Center and Bastille-Tayran Film and I won the competition with a number of colleagues for a film I wrote, photographed and directed it with editing video for 90 seconds via mobile phone according to the conditions of the competition and after two workshops, the competition ended with a short cinematic film that I directed it entitled "Farah" showed on the cinema in the French institute in Baghdad, date 15/08/2019, in the presence of the audience and I got a certificate of honor.

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