| 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 |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
| Countries | France Somalia Germany Finland |
| Language | Somali |
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]
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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]