Qarantina

  • 90'
  • Iraq
  • 2010
In today’s Iraq, a hitman and a family are condemned to each other by circumstance. He looks down from above on the courtyard where the difficult family life largely takes place.
The wife deceives her husband with a much younger housemate, but finds out that the two men are barely different. Both vent their frustrations using violence. Her man feels humiliated by the intruder, the disgust his much younger wife feels towards him, and his daughter’s unwanted pregnancy. The hitman is quite sympathetic but goes off the rails slowly when he has to liquidate one of his old student friends, who are now all doctors or professors.
All the characters stand for the situation in which Iraq finds itself. Images of street life in Baghdad, all shot from within a tank, make it clear that the occupier is equally imprisoned. A subtle, beautifully shot drama that leaves viewers not without hope of a better future.

  • 90'
  • Iraq
  • 2010
Director
Oday Rasheed
Premiere
European premiere
Countries of production
Iraq, Germany
Year
2010
Festival Edition
IFFR 2011
Length
90'
Medium
DCP
Language
Arabic
Producer
Furat al Jamil
Production Company
Enlil Film & Art
Sales
Enlil Film & Art
Screenplay
Oday Rasheed
Cinematography
Osama Rasheed
Editor
Salwan Kamil
Production Design
Ali Ismail
Sound Design
Ansgar Frerich
Music
Dureed Al-Khafaji
Cast
Asaad Abdul Majeed
Local Distributor
Hubert Bals Fund
Director
Oday Rasheed
Premiere
European premiere
Countries of production
Iraq, Germany
Year
2010
Festival Edition
IFFR 2011
Length
90'
Medium
DCP
Language
Arabic
Producer
Furat al Jamil
Production Company
Enlil Film & Art
Sales
Enlil Film & Art
Screenplay
Oday Rasheed
Cinematography
Osama Rasheed
Editor
Salwan Kamil
Production Design
Ali Ismail
Sound Design
Ansgar Frerich
Music
Dureed Al-Khafaji
Cast
Asaad Abdul Majeed
Local Distributor
Hubert Bals Fund