The Gravedigger’s Wife (2021)

Original title

Guled & Nasra

Directed by

Khadar Ahmed

Genre

drama

Country

Somalia, Germany, France, Finland

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

K-12

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 30 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A gravedigger in rural Somalia struggles to care for his wife as her kidney failure worsens. He faces difficult choices about work, money, and family while trying to save her life.

slow-burnmelancholicintimategroundedresilientquietly intenseheartfelthumanistic

What happens

The Gravedigger's Wife (Finnish: Guled & Nasra, lit. 'Guled and Nasra') is a drama film, directed by Khadar Ayderus Ahmed and released in 2021. The film is a coproduction of companies from France, Germany and Finland. Ahmed's feature debut, the film was inspired by a death in his own family approximately a decade earlier. 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. The film premiered in the Critics' Week program at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. It was subsequently screened at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, where it was one of the winners of the Amplify Voices Award. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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