Dawn of the World

[1] Starring Venice Film Festival revelation Hafsia Herzi (The Secret of the Grain) and Hiam Abbass (The Lemon Tree, The Visitor), Dawn of the World gives an unexpected account of the multiple impacts of the Iran–Iraq War, the Gulf War and the 1991 uprisings in Iraq.

The film shows how these conflicts have damaged an area claimed to be the geographic location of the Garden of Eden.

[citation needed] The Mesopotamian Marshes, at the delta of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, lie in the south of Iraq.

In this completely foreign environment that is hostile to this newcomer, and as a new conflict is on the verge of inflaming the whole area, Riad will do the impossible to find his place.

The soundtrack includes Massive Attack's song Hymn of the Big Wheel (album Blue Lines) and two songs of the Palestinian singer Rim Banna: Jammal and Ya Lel Ma Atwalak (album Lullabies from the Axis of Evil).