List of movies on Somalia

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...

On the day of a decisive court hearing and an important wedding performance, a quiet wedding musician finds his private life exposed to public...

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...

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

A man, obsessed with a young woman, becomes addicted to the movement of a snake and stalks the young woman, trying to impregnate her.

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...

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 a quaint Somali village where herding families coexist, an event disrupts the peace and 9-year-old Barni gets lost after a celebratory wedding,...

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...

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

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

Prima and Lebsi are two young Afro-descendant women who grew up on the outskirts of Lisbon, daughters of immigrants who occasionally meet at a house...

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

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...

Souad, Oubah and Ayane met at a tender age. Khat is a very sought after leaf, commonly used by Djiboutians, which, when chewed for long periods of...

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

Eight years of filming within the northern German city of Bremen’s Somali community reveals what Merkel’s 2015 promise “We can do...

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...

An insight into young Somali mens experience in Sweden.

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...

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...

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...

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

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...