Baghdad Messi

Directed by Sahim Omar Kalifa · Starring Ali Raad Al-Zaydawi, Hayder Helo, Noor Al-Hoda, Abdulaziz Mohamed · 2012

Iraq, 2009: ten-year-old Hamoudi lives for football, but just before the Barcelona–Manchester United final his family's television breaks down.

A moving, award-winning story of a child's football passion against the backdrop of war-torn Iraq.

Iraq, 2009. Little Hamoudi (10) is totally obsessed with football. Just as the rest of the world, he and his friends are eagerly looking forward to the Champions League finale FC Barcelona-Manchester United. The long-awa

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