30/06/2021 - The first feature by Finnish, Mogadishu-born director Khadar Ayderus Ahmed follows a loving couple living in the outskirts of Djibouti city with their teenage son

Guled and Nasra are a loving couple, living in the outskirts of Djibouti city with their teenage son, Mahad. However, they are facing difficult times: Nasra urgently needs an expensive surgery to treat a chronic kidney disease. Guled is already working hard as a gravedigger to make ends meet: how can they find the money to save Nasra and keep the family together?

This is the synopsis for The Gravedigger’s Wife [+see also:
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The film, selected for the upcoming edition of the Critics' Week, set to take place from 7 to 15 July, during the 74th Cannes Film Festival, is a Finnish-German-French production staged by Oy Bufo Ab, Twenty Twenty Vision and Pyramide Productions, and sold internationally by Orange Studio.

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