Oday Rasheed

Iraq, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, United States of America

About the film

It is the year 1946. Under strict orders from their father, Adam forces his younger brother Ali to watch their grandfather’s corpse washed before burial. Their cousin Iman, their constant playmate, is excluded from the ritual because she is a girl. The sight deeply affects Adam: he declares he does not want to grow up, and from that moment, he stops aging.

Year: 2024
Runtime: 97 min
Director / Writer: Oday Rasheed
Cinematography: Basim Faihad
Editing: Hervé de Luze, Muhanad Rasheed
Producers: Majed Rasheed, Ally Tubis, Oday Rasheed
Cast: Azzam Ahmed Ali, Abdul Jabbar Hassan, Alaa Najm, Tahseen Dahis, Star Awad Hatem, Hoda Shaheen, Osama Azzam

Oday Rasheed is an Iraqi-American writer and director. His first feature Underexposure (2003) was the first film made in Iraq after the U.S. invasion, and won Best Film in Singapore. Qarantina (2009) earned a jury prize in Oran. He moved to the U.S. in 2012. If You See Something is his first English-language film.