YASSIN AL DARADJI

Biography

Iraqi writer-director Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji is an alumnus of Berlinale Talents 2018 and London Film School, where he received an MA with distinction for ‘Children of God’ (2013), a multi-award-winning short set in the same Baghdad community as his debut feature, Hanging Gardens. In 2015, Ahmed began work on a feature documentary, Servant of Baghdad, which received development support through Greenhouse Film Centre. UK-based ‘Stray’ (2016) premiered at London’s East End Film Festival and went on to have a successful festival run. Hanging Gardens was selected for RAWI Screenwriters’ Lab and Med Film Factory in 2017, was short-listed for a development award at El Gouna Film Festival 2018 and at Malmo Arab Film Festival Market Forum 2020.