HALA ALSALMAN
About
Hala is an Iraqi-Canadian filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her fiction film Bêtes Humaines, a multi-genre short set in Montreal’s subway system, was nominated for the prestigious Canadian Gemini Award and premiered at the Newport Beach International Film Festival in 2012.
Haifa Street
A ruthless sniper on Haifa Street in Baghdad kills a man who walks into the neighborhood. He prevents anyone from retrieving the corpse with the threat of gunfire, causing a chain of events that will reveal the tragic truth about the main character's relationship to the deceased.