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Gilgamesh And The Three Planets ( Iraq 2011 )

Color: Color, 23’

Direction: Mohammad Tawfik

Screenplay: Mohammad Tawfik

Director of Photography: Mohammad Tawfik, Farouk Daoud

Sound: Mohammad Tawfik

Music: Ahmad Mokhtar

Editing: Mohammad Tawfik

Cast: Fadhel Soltani, Ahmad Mokhtar, Faisal Sahi Laibi

Production: Mouhammad Tawfik

Synopsis

The film is about the innovative space uniting three Iraqi artists; a painter, a poet, and a musician. All of them are looking for Gilgamesh to inspire them in their creative process.

Réalisateur

Director and actor graduate from the Academy of fine Arts/ Baghdad university , 1973. He worked for the lraqi film institute, 1974-78. He is now a scriptwriter/director of short, documentary and fiction films. He has written numerous reviews and articles on film for Arabic newspapers and journals such as Al Hayat, Al Nahar.