Released:
2008-08-09

Overview:
In impoverished Baghdad under Saddam's dictatorship, 16-year-old Amal hopes to regain her social status at school by volunteering to find a book as a class gift for the departing literature teacher. Meanwhile, her emotionally fragile little brother becomes obsessed with the notion that a visiting uncle from America--whom he confuses with Santa Claus--will bring him toys. Ashamed never to have been able to give his son a toy, the child's father sells some more prized family possessions and buys a model car for him.

Director:
Raouf Zaki

Runtime:
0h 39min

Genre:

• Cast:
• 
  Tamara Dhia
  as
  Amal
• 
  Nora Armani
  as
  Amal's Mother
• 
  Demosthenes Chrysan
  as
  Amal's Father
• 
  May Calamawy
  as
  Hala (as May El Calamawy)
• 
  John Rahal Sarrouf
  as
  Mr. Kareem