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Original title
Will My Parents Come to See Me
Synopsis
Decisive hours have dawned for young Farah. Organizational machinery starts up around him. Farah is examined by a doctor, instructed by the bailiff, and looked after by an imam. Farah is waiting for his parents to visit. “How are you?” is the question everyone asks him that day. Each time, “Fine” is his concise answer. Only when the policewoman takes Farah out of town the next morning does the unspeakable become a painful reality.
Cast
Xaliimo Cali Xasan, Shucayb Abdirahman Cabdi, Maxamed Axmed Maxamed, Mohamed Hersi, Geenyada Madaw, Faysal Colaad Muxumed, Guuleed Xasan Saleebaan
Films Distribution
sixpackfilm
Production
Mo Harawe, Alexander von Piechowski, Nuh Musse Birjeeb, Ahmed Farah
Editing
Mo Harawe
Cinematography
Steven Samy
Editing
Alexander von Piechowski
Language
Arabic
Subtitles
English, Italian
Premiere
Italian premiere
Main awards
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Biography
Mo Harawe was born in Mogadishu in Somalia. He attended art school in Somalia, where he discovered his passion for the cinema. Since 2009 he has lived in Austria, where he started his experience as a director. He has taken part in many film workshops, and made short films selected for international festivals winning many awards. He has also worked as a screenwriter for feature-length films. The screenplay for the feature film To Mogadishu, developed at the Diverse Geschichten Script Lab, won the Dor Film Award at the Diagonale Film Festival in 2016. In 2019, he obtained the BKA Startstipendium, a support fund to make his feature film, The Village next to Paradise, currently in development.
Filmography
2021 – Will My Parents Come To See Me, sf
2020 – Life on the Horn, sf
2019 – 1947, sf