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Volume 14, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 2042-7824
  • E-ISSN: 2042-7832

Abstract

After its world premiere at Berlinale, Mo Harawe’s fourth short film played at over eighty film festivals, won the Grand Prix at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and secured a European Short Film Award nomination. Apart from employing a slow cinematic style in service of a strong narrative that deals with the death penalty in Somalia, Harawe’s filmmaking style also illustrates how a filmmaker’s confidence in their feelings and instinct can result in the quiet devastation of .

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