Haifa Street
TFI Suppport
TFI Network 2017
Logline
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.
MOHANAD HAYAL
SCREENWRITER, DIRECTOR
Mohanad is an Iraqi filmmaker and co-founder of the Iraqi Independent Film Center in Baghdad. As a key figure in the resurgence of cinema in Iraq, he has on features like and Qarantina. Mohanad’s short film Happy Birthday premiered at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival.
HALA ALSALMAN
CO-SCREENWRITER, PRODUCER
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.
ALI RAHEEM
PRODUCER
Ali is a documentary filmmaker based in Baghdad. His film Balanja premiered at the Aran Film Festival of Oran and he is one of the founders of the Baghdad-based production company Dream Group.