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Samia Yusuf Omar is just 9 years old when she discovers her special talent: she is faster than all the other boys and girls. With her friend Ali, who...

In Somalia, principled, young husband and father Abdi turns to piracy to support his family. While his wife and child wait for him in Yemen, an...

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...

In a windy Somali village, a newly assembled family must navigate between their different aspirations and the complex world surrounding them. Love,...

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...

Centering on the revolutionary Dervish State and its influential leader, Muhammad Abdullah Hassan (the "Mad Mullah") is an epic on the grandest...

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...

How can you understand a violent past? Somali-born Abdi is furniture designer and support worker. He reenacts his life, marked by war and...

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...

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...

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...

Dhalinyaro tells the story of three 18-year-old high school girls, coming from different social classes, rooted in their culture but also turned to...

Somalia's first full-length feature film.

A coming of age fable of a Somali boy as he struggles to survive in his war-torn land.

Qabyo 2 is the quintessential example of the sequel being better than the original. Written and directed by, and starring, a legendary cast of...

A Djiboutian film.

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...

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...

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...

Ahmed lives in hiding in Sweden after fleeing from Somalia. He has been in Europe for six years. When Ahmed arrived in the Italian island of...