Somalia Movies

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

In a Somali village, Barni, a mysterious hitwoman in her fifties, dramatically resurfaces years after vanishing without a trace. There, she's intent...

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

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...

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...

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...

The sequel to the 2021 film Guled & Nasra. Plot TBA.

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...

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

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...

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...

An insight into young Somali mens experience in Sweden.

A delightful mockumentary that underscores the universality of childhood and imagination, Warya originally screened at the Africa Film Festival...

Documentary on the Somali Democratic Republic and the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party government.