Hanging Gardens

In a dilapidated villa in Cairo, an aged caretaker resides, cut off from the evolving world. His solitude shatters when a gang leader unexpectedly enters his life.

The arrival of a young apprentice disrupts the marriage of a closeted Moroccan master tailor in one of Morocco’s oldest quarters.

Set in a gritty, cramped neighborhood in East Amman, Jordan, writer and director Bassel Ghandour pieces together a violent mosaic of extortion, forbidden love, and ungodly alliances in his directorial debut.