A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenplay of his first feature film, receives an assignment to oversee the installation of a television relay station in a remote region of Zahedan province. He has already hired Turkmen tribespeople for his film and selected his filming location. Meanwhile his wife, who is working on her Ph.D. dissertation about the Mongol invasion of Iran, attempts to dissuade him from accepting the assignment. One night, while working on his history of the cinema series, the director fantasizes a diegetic world that consists of clever juxtapositions of his different worlds: the history of cinema, the history of the mongol invasion, his own film idea and his imminent assignment to the desert.
Set in the Umayyad Caliphate, this movie follows the events of a fateful day involving a dance ritual, decapitation, martyrdom, and the killing of Hussein.
The Boys from Baghdad High is a documentary that follows a group of teenage boys in Baghdad as they navigate the challenges of daily life during the Iraq War. The film explores themes of friendship, resilience, and the impact of war on young people.
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