Santa Claus in Baghdad

2008

In impoverished Baghdad under Saddam's dictatorship, 16-year-old Amal hopes to regain her social status at school by volunteering to find a book as a class gift for the departing literature teacher. Meanwhile, her emotionally fragile little brother...

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Cast

Nora Armani

Amal's Mother

Demosthenes Chrysan

Amal's Father

May Calamawy

Hala (as May El Calamawy)

John Rahal Sarrouf

Mr. Kareem

Miriam Habib

Student 1

Alexandra Nader

Student 2

Ameena Sais

Rafeeka

Sara Hassan

Deena

Dody Eid

Bilal

David Zaki

Sami

Marie-Thérèse Abou-Daoud

Bilal's Teacher

Manny Piatos

Uncle Omar

Nikhail Asnani

Fareeda's Son

Nadia Hassan

Fareeda's Daughter

Gershon Eigner

Book Merchant

Crew

Art

John El Manahi

Production design

Costume and make-up

Caroline Errington

Costume design

Crew

Directing

Raouf Zaki

Director

Editing

Raouf Zaki

Editor

Production

Raouf Zaki

Casting

Hana Zaki

Casting

Sound

Writing

Raouf Zaki

Writer

Elsa Marston

Writer

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