Women of My Life (نساء حياتي)
Qumra Projects
/ Feature Documentary / Iraq, Sweden, Qatar
In Arabic
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Synopsis
Zahraa (30) revisits an incident that took place at her aunt Hayat’s (65) house in Baghdad twenty years ago when her childhood friend Noor disappeared. She witnessed Noor being violently dragged out to the street and later found out that she was abandoned in front of a mosque and left to an unknown destiny. Zahraa embarks on a search to find Noor after two decades—confronting her fears, secrets, and the possible association of her aunt Hayat with the crime, the midwife who helped bring both girls into the world.
She digs deep in Hayat’s house, where thousands of babies were born, hoping to strike a memory that leads her closer to Noor. Through the layered search, Zahraa must navigate her trauma and reality where the death and disappearance of women are happening daily in Iraq. She challenges reality by imagining a life free of fear and raises questions: How possible is it to find Noor; is she even alive? How does one break out of this cycle of fear? The story takes different routes between realist and imaginary worlds to draw a personal cinematic portrait of the state of women in a traumatised and repressed society.