Flana

Directed by
Zahraa Ghandour
Starring
Hayat Mohsen, Natalie Ali
Duration
87 min.
Year
2025
Language
Arabic
Tip from Cineville: Malmö Arab Film Festival

Zahraa returns to her childhood home in Baghdad, haunted by the disappearance of her friend Noor twenty years ago. During her search, she meets 22 year-old Laila at the same shelter where Noor was last seen. Zahraa discovers that many girls are abandoned by their mothers due to gender-based violence. She realizes how the war on Iraq reinforced patriarchal systems, compelling mothers to leave their baby daughters behind in a society that rejects them.

Iraqi filmmaker Zahraa Ghandour's documentary Flana is a deeply personal work that emerges from individual memory to reopen a collective, untold wound in contemporary Iraqi history.

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