Santa Claus in Baghdad (2008)

In impoverished Baghdad under Saddams dictatorship 16yearold Amal hopes to regain her social status at school by volunteering to find a book as a class gift for the departing literature teacher Meanwhile her emotionally fragile little brother becomes obsessed with the notion that a visiting uncle from Americawhom he confuses with Santa Clauswill bring him toys Ashamed never to have been able to give his son a toy the childs father sells some more prized family possessions and buys a model car for him