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SAFAR Festival: The Gravedigger's Wife (Cert TBC)
Film
Directed by: Khadar Ayderus Ahmed
Finland, Germany, France/Somali (English subtitles) (2021)
Date
Wednesday 6 July 2022 6pm
Venue
Cinema
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Cast
Omar Abdi, Yasmin Warsame, Kadar Abdoul-Aziz Ibrahim
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Duration:
1 hour and 22 minutes (No pre-show)
Recommended Age:
Advised certificate: 12A
Guled and Nasra are a loving couple, living in the outskirts of Djibouti city with their teenage son, Mahad and facing difficult times.
Nasra urgently needs an expensive surgery to treat a chronic kidney disease. Guled is already working hard as a gravedigger to make ends meet: how can they find the money to save Nasra and keep the family together?
Finnish writer-director Khadar Ayderus Ahmed, born in Mogadishu 40 years ago, has directed several successful short films, such as The Night Thief in 2017. In addition, he has already made a notable career as a scriptwriter. The Gravedigger’s Wife is his first feature and it premiered in the competition of the Critics Week of Cannes in 2021.
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