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 Un Certain Section of the 77th edition of the Cannes ...

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 to Paradise,” which premieres May 21 in the ...

Taken by surprise by a massive influx of Somali refugees, the town of Lewiston, Maine, responded first with open-armed acceptance – and then with thinly veiled loathing as fears grew that the new neighbors were bleeding the local economy dry. The tension ...

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 Selection across the festival’s 77 editions. Born in ...

TIFF: Somali-Canadian hip hop artist K’naan Warsame’s feature debut is a quietly assertive portrait of a mother and son on a camel farm in Northeastern Somalia. In the first sequence of “Mother Mother” a herd of camels cry out in the dark.