Director
Mary McGuckian
Starring
Aja Naomi King, Martha Canga Antonio, Barkhad Abdi, Orla Brady, Stanley Townsend
Run Time
113 mins
Release Year
2019
Country of Origin
Ireland, Belgium, Morocco
Language
English, Somali
Director of Photography: Michael Lavelle
Editor: Sylvie Landra, Mairead McIvor
Produced by: Mary McGuckian, Adrian Politowski
Music: Nitin Sawhney
Screenplay by: Mary McGuckian
Production Designer: Emma Pucci
A Girl from Mogadishu
Part of the European Perspectives Strand
Writer-director Mary McGuckian’s powerful new film tells the inspiring true story of Ifrah Ahmed. A refugee from war-torn Somalia in 2006, Ifrah is trafficked to Ireland, where a medical exam reveals the extent of her genital mutilation as a child. Tormented by the memory, she becomes a leading international activist against gender-based violence and female genital mutilation. Aja Naomi King (How to Get Away with Murder) is striking as Ifrah. [15]
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