Abshir Rageh had to sneak out from home to see bootleg Indian films and “Rambo” at a makeshift cinema. Now, he’s creating dramas that draw millions of online views in a country inching toward ...
EXCLUSIVE: French sales and production company Totem Films has boarded international sales on Somalia-set drama The Village Next To Paradise by Mo Harawe. The movie was among 14 titles announced for ...
Mo Harawe makes history this Cannes Film Festival with debut feature The Village Next To Paradise, which is world premiering in Un Certain Regard as the first Somalian title to make it into Official ...
Irish-Somali FGM campaigner Ifrah Ahmed and American actress Aja Naomi King, who plays Ahmed in the film "A Girl From Mogadishu", on location in Dublin. Mandatory credit Jerry McCarthy DUBLIN, Feb 27 ...
Finnish Somali filmmaker Khadar Ayderus Ahmed, whose debut feature “The Gravedigger’s Wife” premiered at Cannes’ Critics’ Week in 2021, is developing his follow-up, “Thundering Smoke,” which follows a ...
A member of the refugee Somali film industry pictured on May 4 at the production studio in the Eastleigh suburb of Nairobi. The filmmakers aim to show a different side of their country. Tony Karumba / ...
The short film "Dhaanto" directed by Yasmin Yassin features a Somali dance troupe that is sharing traditional moves with young Somali Americans in Minneapolis. [MUSIC PLAYING] CATHY WURZER: A local ...
On this day in 1993, the Battle of Mogadishu began in Somalia and became well-known from the film Black Hawk Down. 18 U.S.
Plans are underway to showcase Somali culture and history in Nairobi through an exhibition, according to Ali Said Hassan, the organizer. Hassan, who was the first person to establish a photo studio in ...