Short Somali film
Life on the Horn by
Mo Harawe won the
Golden Tanit for Best Short Film at the 32
nd Carthage Film Festival (JCC) in Tunisia, which concluded its events Saturday night. Having 3 screenings during the festival, the award was received by the film’s director at the closing ceremony.
The film previously won a
Special Jury Mention at the
Cinema of Tomorrow Competition of the 42nd
Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF), where the film landed its Arab world premiere, and a
Special Mention at
Locarno Festival, where it landed its world premiere.
A co-production of Somalia, Austria and Germany,
Life on the Horn sheds light on the issue of the hazardous nuclear waste being released on Somalia’s shores through the story of a young Somali who follows his daily routine in the face of an existential threat coming from the shores.
Life on the Horn features
Mo Harawe as the film’s writer, director and Dop, who also co-produced it with
Alexander von Piechowski and
Deko Adano Ali. It stars
Xuseen Abdirisaaq,
Maxamed Axmed Maxamed and
Faadumo Abshir.
MAD Solutions handles the film’s distribution across the Arab world.
Mo Harawe is a Somali director, based in Austria. He kicked off his journey as a director in Austria in 2009.
Harawe has joined a number of filmmaking workshops and made five short films that were selected and awarded at several international film festivals. Aside from directing,
Mo Harawe is a scriptwriter who wrote several feature-length films including To
Mogadishu that won the
Dor Film award at the
Diagonale in 2016. His new feature film
The Village Next to Paradise is now in development.