The helicopter pilot is worried. Any more than 20 minutes in this shattered frontline village and Somalia's Al-Shabaab ...

NAIROBI, Kenya – The killers in the Kenyan village singled out non-Muslims, shooting them point-blank or slitting their throats, just like the previous night in an adjacent hamlet. A Somali extremist ...

Mo Harawe makes history this Cannes Film Festival with debut feature The Village Next To Paradise, which is world premiering in Un Certain Regard as the first Somalian title to make it into Official ...

Like many African cultures, storytelling is a crucial part of Somalia’s oral history. Back in the 1960s, Somali artists and filmmakers started to make their films. Harawe puts his feature next to a ...

Over the last few weeks, troops from the Somali National Army (SNA), backed by clan-based militias, African Union forces, and U.S. air support, have steadily made progress against Shabaab, al Qaeda’s ...

EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based sales company Totem Films has posted first deals on Somali-Austrian director Mo Harawe’s Cannes Un Certain Regard selection The Village Next To Paradise and unveiled the first ...

After making waves on the festival circuit with a pair of heralded short films, Somali filmmaker Mo Harawe makes his auspicious feature debut at this year’s Cannes Film Festival with “The Village Next ...

EXCLUSIVE: French sales and production company Totem Films has boarded international sales on Somalia-set drama The Village Next To Paradise by Mo Harawe. The movie was among 14 titles announced for ...

The Somali village of Doble, bombed Monday by a U.S. missile that killed four civilians, is not a nice place. When I drove along Somalia’s southern border with Kenya last June with photographer Sven ...

GARBAHAREY, Somalia - Somali government forces on Monday recaptured key villages in southern Gedo region as the military intensified attacks against the militant group Al-Shabaab, Garowe Online ...

Finnish Somali filmmaker Khadar Ayderus Ahmed, whose debut feature "The Gravedigger's Wife" premiered at Cannes' Critics' Week in 2021, is developing his follow-up, "Thundering Smoke," which follows a ...