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2021 drama film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Gravedigger's Wife is a drama film, directed by Khadar Ayderus Ahmed and released in 2021.[1] The film is a coproduction of companies from France, Somalia, Germany and Finland.[2]
The Gravedigger's Wife | |
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Directed by | Khadar Ayderus Ahmed |
Written by | Khadar Ayderus Ahmed |
Produced by | Misha Jaari Mark Lwoff Risto Nikkilä Thanassis Karathanos Martin Hampel Stéphane Parthenay Robin Boespflug-Vonie |
Starring | Omar Abdi Yasmin Warsame |
Cinematography | Arttu Peltomaa |
Edited by | Sebastian Thümler |
Music by | Andre Matthias |
Production companies | Bufo Twenty Twenty Vision Pyramide Productions |
Distributed by | Orange Studio |
Release dates |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
Countries | France Somalia Germany Finland |
Language | Somali |
Ahmed's feature debut, the film was inspired by a death in his own family approximately a decade earlier.[3] It was shot in 2019, although release was delayed until 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic and its disruptions of film distribution in 2020.[3]
The film premiered in the Critics' Week program at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.[1] It was subsequently screened at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, where it was one of the winners of the Amplify Voices Award.[4] It was selected as the Somali entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards, the first time that Somalia had submitted a film.[5]
Guled (Omar Abdi), a gravedigger in Djibouti, is struggling to raise money to pay for surgery when his wife Nasra (Yasmin Warsame) becomes gravely ill with kidney disease.[2]
Year | Award | Category | Recipient | Result | Ref |
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2021 | Africa Movie Academy Awards | Best Film | The Gravedigger’s Wife | Won | [6] |
Best Director | Khadar Ahmed | Nominated | |||
Best Actor in a Leading Role | Omar Abdi | Won | |||
Achievement in Makeup | The Gravedigger’s Wife | Won | |||
Achievement in Cinematography | Nominated | ||||
Achievement in Production Design | Won | ||||
Best Soundtrack | Nominated | ||||
Best Sound | Nominated | ||||
Best First Feature Film by a Director | The Gravedigger’s Wife/Khadar Ahmed | Nominated |
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