Dreams (Arabic: أحلام (Ahlaam) ) is a 2006 Iraqi film directed by Mohamed Al-Daradji.
"[4] Two years after Ahlaam's international premiere, it was shown in Mohammed's home country of Iraq at the Baghdad National Theatre.
Two of the main characters call out the names of their loved ones from within the psychiatric ward of a Baghdad hospital, against a backdrop of explosions and gunfire.
Ahlaam is attending University, Mehdi is getting ready to take his exam for medical school, and Ali is working as a soldier in the Iraqi military.
He is stationed with his best friend Hasan when they are hit by the American and British bombing of Iraq in December, 1998.
Ali crosses a border while carrying his friend and is picked up by a van and sent to the army jail.
In the army jail, he is charged as a deserter and sentenced to have his ear cut off and to incarceration in a mental asylum.
The next time she appears in the movie, she is a patient in the same mental asylum as Ali, calling out Ahmed's name and being treated with shock therapy.