THE LAST DISPLACED
Genre
Drama and War
Running time
18 minutes
Year
2022
Language
Arabic
Subtitle
English
Country
Iraq and Qatar
Director
Mohanad Al-Sudani
Bio
Producer
Huda Al Kadhimi
Cast
Ameer Ali Jbara, Gheed Saleh, Tahsin Dahes
Scriptwriter
Mohanad Al-Sudani, Mohadeseh Jalilvand
Wisam, a soldier in the Iraqi counter-terrorism service, had left his child during the war, and as fate decides, he happens to find a left-alone infant. Wisam’s fellow soldier gets killed by a sniper, and thus, Wisam gets trapped inside the house with the starving infant, the sniper, who killed Wisam’s fellow soldier, turns out to be a 17-year-old girl who wants her infant back.
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