Songs of Adam (2024)
The year is 1946. Under the strict orders of their father, Adam drags his younger brother Ali to witness their grandfather's corpse get washed before burial. Their cousin Iman, their constant playmate, is excluded from the ritual because she is a girl. The sight of the corpse has a profound effect on Adam; he announces that he doesn’t want to grow up and, from that moment on, he stops aging. As the years pass, the villagers come to believe Adam is cursed, while his brother, grappling with his own aging, feels Adam should be institutionalized. Only Iman and Anki, a shepherd and Adam’s lifelong best friend, see his condition as a blessing, preserving in him the pure, innocent goodness of a child. A haunting and beautiful story set against the oases and dust storms of Iraq.
Director: Oday Rasheed
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Azzam Ahmed Ali as Adam |
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Abdul Jabbar Hassan as Anki (old man) |
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Alaa Najm as Iman (woman) |
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Tahseen Dahis as Anki (young man) |
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Star Awad Hatem as Ali (man) |
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Hoda Shaheen as Iman (young woman) |
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Osama Azzam as Anki (teenager) |
| Directing | Oday Rasheed | Director |
| Writing | Oday Rasheed | Writer |
| Production | Majed Rasheed | Producer |
| Production | Oday Rasheed | Producer |
| Crew | Osama Rasheed | Post Production Supervisor |
| Production | Shahed Abdul Karim | Casting |
| Costume & Make-Up | Tamara Abdulrahman | Costume Design |
| Sound | Tatiana el Dahdah | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Inanna Palikruschev | Sound Mixer |
| Sound | Bryan Keller | Music |
| Sound | Oday Rasheed | Music |
| Art | Ray Aasee | Production Design |
| Editing | Hervé de Luze | Editorial Consultant |
| Editing | Muhanad Rasheed | Editor |
| Camera | Basim Faihad | Director of Photography |
| Production | Haider Ibrahim | Line Producer |
| Production | Ally Tubis | Co-Producer |
