The Gravedigger's Wife
The films gathered in this series were all directed and produced during the last ten years. They sometimes show the state of the world. These singular works also explore new poetic registers, methods of filming that surprise by their capacity to render the air we breathe, with a sense of metaphor, provocation or play.
Winner of the Étalon d'or, 2021 FESPACO
Guled and Nasra are a loving couple living in the slums of Djibouti with their son Mahad. However, their family's equilibrium is threatened: Nasra suffers from a serious kidney disease and needs urgent surgery. The operation is expensive, and Guled is already struggling to earn a living as a gravedigger: how can he raise the money to save Nasra and keep the family together?
Khadar Ayderus Ahmed
Khadar Ayderus Ahmed is a Finnish-Somali director and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the feature film The Gravedigger's Wife, for which he received the Étalon d'or at the 2021 FESPACO. Born in Somalia, he moved to Finland as a refugee with his family at the age of 16. In 2008, he wrote the script of the short film Citizens, on which he also worked as the second assistant director. Then in 2014, he directed the first short Me ei vietetä joulua which received critics acclaim. He later directed two more short films The Night Thief (2017) and The Killing of Cahceravga (2018). The Gravedigger's Wife, which premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, is his debut feature. The film became the first Somali submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
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