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On the day of a decisive court hearing and an important wedding performance, a quiet wedding musician finds his private life exposed to public scrutiny. Accused of exploiting his marriage, he moves between courtroom, city streets and stage, carrying the weight of judgment, loyalty, and unspoken guilt.
When men take up arms to go against their brothers, women have to take up gravediggers’ shovels. Ceebla (Fardouza Moussa Egueh, who we also saw in Gravedigger’s Wife), refuses to bargain for the cost of her labour. When her grave finally finds a taker, the revenue logic takes an unexpected twist. The Earth Has Ears is a civil war film without gunfire. It shows how the absurdity of war also turns everyday life at the home front irrational. / MSFF
In the heart of rural Somalia, widowed mother Qalifo and her son, Asad, labor as camel herders. However, Asad has his heart set on a life in town with Ifrah, the girl of his dreams. When a young American visitor declares his love for Ifrah, the rivalry leads to murder, and Qalifo weighs in with a shocking choice that transforms all of their lives.
A man, obsessed with a young woman, becomes addicted to the movement of a snake and stalks the young woman, trying to impregnate her.
Centering on the revolutionary Dervish State and its influential leader, Muhammad Abdullah Hassan (the "Mad Mullah") is an epic on the grandest scale. The film follows Hassan's life from his roots as a humble mullah to a revolutionary anti-colonial leader that fought off the British Empire for more than two decades.
Smuggling and illegal migrant is a national disaster that destroyed all goals and hopes of the Somaliland teenagers/youth which cause a very critical hard situation of our life.
A delightful mockumentary that underscores the universality of childhood and imagination, Warya originally screened at the Africa Film Festival Australia.
Amidst the lingering shadows of the Somali civil war, Qaali, an asthmatic single mother of seven, braves the slums of Kampala, striving daily in a restaurant to shield her family from the specters of their past.
In a Somali village, Barni, a mysterious hitwoman in her fifties, dramatically resurfaces years after vanishing without a trace. There, she's intent on getting revenge on vicious gangster Ardo, who rules the village with an iron fist.
In one of the world's largest and oldest refugee camps, Dadaab, the inhabitans survive by watching films and dreaming. The refugees cannot leave the camp, but they let their minds escape the harsh reality: by going to the simple cinema hall run by Abdikafi Mohamed, the film's protagonist.
Young Alifa looks up at the somali sky. She thinks about her daily life as a shepherdess. She knows that the day that will change her life forever is about to come.
Recording a 24-hour period throughout every country in the world, we explore a greater diversity of perspectives than ever seen before on screen. We follow characters and events that evolve throughout the day, interspersed with expansive global montages that explore the progression of life from birth, to death, to birth again. In the end, despite unprecedented challenges and tragedies throughout the world, we are reminded that every day we are alive there is hope and a choice to see a better future together. Founded in 2008, it set out to explore our planet's identity and challenges in an attempt to answer the question: Who are we?
Qabyo 2 is the quintessential example of the sequel being better than the original. Written and directed by, and starring, a legendary cast of multi-hyphenated Somali artists, this cult classic combined unconventional filmmaking techniques, kinetic editing and a fascinating interpretation of mise en scène that’s since become an easily digestible visual grammar for its intended audience. This bombastic socio-comic musical about diaspora and assimilation in America ushered in a new era of national cinema that followed the Somali cinematic tradition’s steadfast belief in the ‘by us, for us’ philosophy.
Somalia. A policewoman sits in her parked car. After a while, she gets out, puts on her service cap, and enters the prison. There, decisive hours have dawned for young Farah. Organizational machinery starts up around him. Farah is examined by a doctor, instructed by the bailiff, and looked after by an imam. Farah is waiting for his parents to visit. “How are you?” is the question everyone asks him that day. Each time, “Good” is his concise answer. Only when the policewoman takes Farah out of town the next morning does the unspeakable become a painful reality.
When a high school basketball star is wrongfully convicted of a crime in a suburban neighborhood, his family’s pursuit of a better life is shattered. Ibtisam Farah, a high achieving Somali youth worker is forced to take on the case, which catapults her into a world of crime and forces her to connect with a community she is estranged from. Based on the short film of the same name.
A young man grows up in a clan's environments and shaped by it, but when he travels abroad, everything he knows collides with reality.
A young man crosses the desert seeking a better life, but isolation, fading memories, and silence force him to confront his past, his pain-and the truth about himself.
For over a decade, toxic waste has been dumped illegally on the coastline of Somalia. The earthquake and tsunami in 2004 damaged the toxic containers and spilled waste, which caused the spread of diseases. Many people left their villages but some stayed and lived with the consequences.
A Somali migrant seeks refuge in the underground of a building near the Swiss-Italian border. A popular song from his country awakens in him the desire to leave.
Somalia's first full-length feature film.
In a small town, a nomad cuts down a tree he needs to use. However, he accidentally chops down the wrong tree, felling the tree that sustains life itself. When the latter tree falls, all life disappears. The nomad then finds himself in the middle of a desert that he does not recognize, and he tries to work his way out of it. During this particular quest, he comes across a small tree that is in the process of dying and opts instead to save this one.
Jama and Samira are newly married and very happy, but when Jama's friend Yonis show up and claim that Samira is a dangerous killer, it changes everything.
A look into a young Somali woman who is having difficulties speaking her mother tongue. Her father narrates the story Cigaal and the Lion Stump with the hope to persuade her to never give up on her Somali heritage.
A talented musician yearns to pursue his passion for music, much to the disappointment of his father, who values practicality over artistic aspirations.
Somaliland Ha Nolato (Long Live Somaliland) takes an experimental approach in exploring and reflecting on the complex history of Somaliland from 1960 to 2021.
A painter finds a shell on a desert island. Out of curiosity, she picks it up and listens to its sound; she can then hear the voice of a girl telling her short and distressing story and that of her village, which once was on that beach.
The sequel to the 2021 film Guled & Nasra. Plot TBA.
Documentary on the Somali Democratic Republic and the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party government.
An insight into young Somali mens experience in Sweden.
The rant of a Somali man known simply as Warmooge.
Everyone thinks that Nasri is being killed because he is a young, immature child. In Somalia, I have met children like Nasri, young people living on the edge of life, silently watching how their peers are treated. Many children have created their own lives because they do not have a father and the freedom to do what they want. This film explores the possibility of a child who has already been abused in life. I hope this film gives a voice to the oppressed children of Somalia. Somali filmmaking is finally starting to flourish after decades of prohibition and neglect. Somalia is full of talent, but there is little opportunity to showcase it. We made this film with a 100% Somali cast and crew. Many of the cast members (including Ahmed who played Nasri, and Adar who played Hawa) are first-time actors.
A micro-short about the everyday coping mechanisms of managing anxiety through the lens of a young Black Muslim woman. This film not only highlights unpredictable nature of anxiety but also the love and support necessary to survive and thrive.
A Djiboutian film.