Feature Film
by Mo Harawe
AT/FR/D/SOM/ 2024 133 min.
Supporting Cast: Axmed Cabdillahi Ducaale, Maxamed Xaaji Cabdi Faarax, Maxamed Axmed Maxamed, Maxamed Maxamuud Jaamac
Writer & Director: Mo Harawe
Cinematographer: Mostafa El Kashef
Casting: Mohamed Mohamud Jama
Production Design: Nuur Abdulkadir
Make up & Hair: Fatuma Yussuf
Costume Design: Sarah Ismail
Sound: Willis Abuto, Anne Gibourg, Guadalupe Cassius, Christophe Vingtrinier
Editing: Joana Scrinzi, aea
Executive Producers Somalia: Nuh Musse Berjeeb, Abdimalik Yusuf, Ahmed Farah, Osman Hassan Hussein
Co-producers: Jean Christophe Reymond, Nicole Gerhards, Mo Harawe
Producers: Sabine Moser & Oliver Neumann
Production: Freibeuterfilm
In collaboration with Kazak Productions (France), NiKo Film (Germany), Maanmaal ACC (Somalia)
(c) 2024 FreibeuterFilm
Supported by: Austrian Film Institute / Vienna Film Fund / ÖFI+ / ORF Film/Fernseh-Abkommen / ZDF – Das Kleine Fernsehspiel in collaboration with ARTE / Cinémas du Monde –Centre National du Cinéma et de L’image Animée –Institut Français / Région Ile de France / World Cinema Fund
Recipient of the Atlas Workshops Prize for Postproduction – Marrakech International Film Festival
SYNOPSIS
In a windy Somali village, a newly assembled family must navigate between their different aspirations and the complex world surrounding them. Love, trust and resilience will power them through their life paths.
FILMSTILLS
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Since 2009 Mo Harawe has been in Austria where his journey as a filmmaker began. His short films have been shown at international film festivals and won several awards. His latest film WILL MY PARENTS COME AND SEE ME celebrated its world premiere at Berlinale 2022 and his previous film LIFE ON THE HORN received a special mention at Locarno Film Festival 2020.
His feature film script TO MOGADISHU has won the DOR FILM award at the Diagonale Film Festival in 2016. In 2019 Muhamed Harawe won the prestigious scholarship from the Federal Ministry for the Arts (BKA Startstipendium) for his debut feature film THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE that he is currently developing at Torino Script Lab.
FILMOGRAFIE:
2022 – WILL MY PARENTS COME AND SEE Short, 28 min
2020 – LIFE ON THE HORN Short, 25 min
2017 – THE STORY OF THE POLAR BEAR WHO WANTED TO AFRICA Short, 28 min