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- DirectorSherry HormannStarsSoraya Omar-ScegoIdriss Abdillahi HoufanehAwa Saïd DararWaris Dirie, born 1965 in Somalia, flees at thirteen when sold to be a mans fourth wife. She works as a maid at the Somalian embassy in London, then in a McDonald's where she's discovered and becomes an international top model. Then, in 1997 she speaks up against female genital mutilation.
- DirectorFred GrivoisStarsAlban LenoirOlga KurylenkoSébastien LalanneIn February 1976 in Djibouti, a school bus was taken hostage at the Somali border. The GIGN is sent on the spot. After 30 hours of tension, a rescue operation is organized.
- DirectorSimone BrioniGraziano ChiscuzzuErmanno GuidaStarsKaha Mohamed AdenKaha Mohamed Aden, an Italian writer of Somali origin, narrates her memories of Mogadishu, her hometown, and reconstructs its story in Pavia, where she currently lives. The capital city of Somalia is divided into five main streets, with each corresponding to different historical periods. The 'fourth road' symbolizes the actuality of civil war, but also negates the preceding periods and makes it necessary to set our hopes on a 'fifth street'. The Fourth Road: Mogadishu, Italy brings to our attention the issues of a land which shared a number of historical relationships with Italy in the past years; yet, this problematic aspect unfailingly tends to be overlooked by Italian mass-media. The history of the city of Mogadishu gives rise to many important fundamental questions on the history of Italy itself, given the assumption that we have a limited, and, to some degree, distorted historical view on this matter, not to mention the partial omission of the colonialism period, of which people seem inclined to take no notice. The Fourth Road: Mogadishu, Italy aims to present the story of a 'new town' in a country which appears to be growing increasingly xenophobic and intolerant.
- DirectorRyoo Seung-wanStarsKim Yoon-seokZo In-sungHuh Joon-hoIn 1991 war-torn Somalia the personnel and the families of both the South Korean and the North Korean embassies have the same goal: to escape from Mogadishu.
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsJosh HartnettEwan McGregorTom SizemoreThe story of 160 elite U.S. soldiers who dropped into Mogadishu in October 1993 to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord, but found themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily armed Somalis.
- DirectorIbrahim LaagStarsJamal HassanOmar LaagHamze GaraadSmuggling and illegal migrant is a national disaster that destroyed all goals and hopes of the Somaliland teenagers/youth which cause a very critical hard situation of our life,
- DirectorIbrahim LaagStarsAsmaBaaskaCabdi CasiisA coming of age fable of a Somali boy as he struggles to survive in his war-torn land.
- DirectorMohamed DawoodOmar ElkholyStarsAbukar AwaleHussein DualehMohamed Hashi ElmiThe story of Somalia's decline from stability to chaos revealing the problems facing its people at home and abroad.
- StarsAbdirahman FiiliShukri AbdikadirAbdullah 'Rasaas' MohammedArday, a Somali word for student, is a 10 episode teleAs the story picks up, we delve deeply into issues surrounding friendship, forced marriages , violence, insecurity and substance abuse. We also explore heavy topics surrounding rape, sexual assault and blackmail, all of which is shown through the unique lens of religion, culture and social expectations. vision series set in a high school in a middle class neighbourhood of Mogadishu.
- DirectorMary McGuckianStarsAja Naomi KingBarkhad AbdiMartha Canga AntonioThis is based on the testimony of Ifrah Ahmed, who--having made the extraordinary journey to escape war-torn Somalia--emerged as one of the world's foremost international activists against Gender-Based Violence and Female Genital Mutilation.
- DirectorBryan BuckleyStarsHarun MohammedIbrahim Moallim HusseinAli MohammedA coming of age fable of a Somali boy as he struggles to survive in his war-torn land.
- DirectorTorstein GrudeA camera in the hands of African Union soldiers in Mogadishu, Somalia, captures the war on the jihadist militants in Al-Shabaab.
- DirectorPaul GreengrassStarsTom HanksBarkhad AbdiBarkhad AbdirahmanThe true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
- DirectorHassan SoyaStarsHassan SoyaMoh ShibiCiltireboyThe story is about to protect the country and the people. One man wants the country to be honestly defended, as well as to find young people who are loyal to their country to stand up for it's salvation. This film fights to tribalism and talks about it being bad.
- StarsIkranHassan Soya
- DirectorJohn GuillerminStarsRichard RoundtreeFrank FinlayVonetta McGeePrivate investigator John Shaft is recruited to go undercover to break up a modern slavery ring where young Africans are lured to Paris to do chain-gang work.