Missed The Lions By The River Tigris? The film will be screening in cinemas from 12 February
The Lions By The River Tigris – a hopeful portrait of a war-torn city finding back its soul as well as the runner up for the AFFR Audience Award 2025 – will be screening in cinemas across the Netherlands from 12 February.
About the film
Zaradasht Ahmed | The Netherlands/Norway | 2025 | 92′
One of the world’s oldest cities, Mosul, Iraq was left in ruins after years of ISIS occupation and the devastating battle for liberation that followed. In this unexpectedly hopeful film, we follow three men who try to rebuild not just the city, but also its soul.
Bashar, a fisherman, returns again and again to his bombed-out family home, where a carved marble lintel featuring two lions is the last relic still standing from his past. Fakhri, a passionated antiques collector, dreams of placing the lions at the entrance of his self-made museum, determined as he is to preserve the city’s history, while Fadel, a musician, revives songs that were banned during the ISIS rule.
Director Zaradasht Ahmed captures with dignity and tenderness a city slowly re-emerging from its trauma.
