Hanging Gardens (Arabic: جنائن معلقة, romanized: Janain mualaqa) is a 2022 drama film directed by Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji who co-wrote the screenplay with Margaret Glover.

It is a co-production between Iraq, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Kingdom.

[1] The film premiered in the Horizons section at the 79th Venice International Film Festival, and was the first Iraqi film ever to be selected by the Venice Festival.

[4][5] It was selected as the Iraqi entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards.

[6] In Baghdad’s city dump (ironically nicknamed The Hanging Gardens) As’ad, a 12-year old boy, finds a sex doll, left by the American soldiers during the Invasion of Iraq.