Mo Harawe

  • Mo Harawe
© Falila Gbadamassi (Africiné Magazine)
Film director, Producer, Screenwriter
(Male)
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Somalia

Somali Austrian Film Director, Screenwriter, Director of Photography and film Producer.

Mo HARAWE (Mo Harawe) is a Director, Screenwriter, Director of Photography and Producer.

He is known for "Life on the Horn" (2020, Short film fiction, B&W), "1947" (2020, Short film fiction), "The story of the polar bear that wanted to go to Africa " (2018, Short fiction film).

Mo Harawe was born in Mogadishu. Since 2009, he has lived in Vienna, where he began making films. He attended numerous film workshops and made five short films that have won awards at international festivals. He also works as a screenwriter and his feature film script "To Mogadishu", developed at the Diverse Geschichten script lab, won the Dor Film award at the Diagonale in 2016. In 2019, Harawe won the BKA Startstipendium for his new feature film, "The Village Next to Paradise", selected by the 2024 Festival de Cannes (Un certain regard). His film "Life on the Horn" (Short drama) won the Tanit d'Or (Grand Prize) of the 2021 JCC - Carthage Film Festival (Tunisia).
"The Village Next to Paradise" (2024) is his first Feature.


Interview excerpt from the Lucarno film Festival 2020


FILMOGRAPHY / FILMOGRAPHIE

2024 : The Village Next to Paradise (Feature / Long métrage fiction)
* Director / Réalisateur
* Screenwriter / Scénariste
* Producer / Producteur

2020 : Life on the Horn (Short Drama / Court métrage fiction)
* Director / Réalisateur
* Screenwriter / Scénariste
* Producer / Producteur
* Cinematographer / Directeur de la photographie

2020 : 1947 (Short Drama / Court métrage fiction)
* Director / Réalisateur
* Screenwriter / Scénariste
* Producer / Producteur

2018 : The story of the polar bear that wanted to go to Africa / L'histoire de l'ours polaire qui voulait aller en Afrique (Short Drama / Court métrage fiction)
* Director / Réalisateur
* Screenwriter / Scénariste
* Producer / Producteur

2016 : One Last Moment / Un dernier moment (Short Drama / Court métrage fiction)
* Director / Réalisateur

2015 : Identité (Identity) (Short Drama / Court métrage fiction)
* Director / Réalisateur

2015 : Le Mur (The wall) (Short Drama / Court métrage fiction)
* Director / Réalisateur


Fuente / Fontes / Our Source / Quelle / Nos Sources (MAIS INFORMAÇÕES / READ MORE / PLUS D'INFOS) :
- Africiné Magazine
- www.jcctunisie.org/eng/filmsDetail.php?id_film=34
- www.festival-cannes.com/en/f/the-village-next-to-paradise/
Updated by Thierno DIA, 15 May 2024

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AR
مو هراوي (المخرج - الصومال) شارك في العديد من ورش العمل وأخرج خمسة أفلام قصيرة فازت بجوائز في مهرجانات دولية. في سنة 2019 ، فاز بجائزة BKA Startstipendium عن فيلمه الطويل The Village Next to Paradise وهو في قيد التطوير حاليًا

Source : JCC 2021
www.jcctunisie.org/ar/filmsDetail.php?id_film=34

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DE

Mo Harawe wurde in Mogadischu geboren. Er entdeckte die Leidenschaft für das Kino in seiner Kunstschule in Somalia. Seit 2009 lebt er in Österreich, wo seine Filmkarriere begann. Er besuchte zahlreiche Filmworkshops und realisierte Kurzfilme, welche auf internationalen Filmfestivals gezeigt und ausgezeichnet wurden. Nebenbei arbeitet Mo Harawe auch als Drehbuchautor und hat mehrere Drehbücher für Spielfilme geschrieben. Sein Drehbuch „Nach Mogadischu", welches er im Rahmen des „DIVERSE GESCHICHTE"Workshops entwickelte, wurde 2016 beim Diagonale Film Festival mit dem Dor Drehbuchpreis ausgezeichnet.

Filmografie
Wait a minute (7 min) 2012

The other side (30 min) 2014

Identity (45 min) 2015

One last moment (7 min) 2016

The story of the polar bear that went to Africa (28 min) 2018
1947 (23 min) 2019
Life on the Horn (25 min) 2020
The Village Next to Paradise (133 mins), 2024


Quelle / Fuente / Fontes / Our Source / Nos Sources (MAIS INFORMAÇÕES / READ MORE / PLUS D'INFOS) :
- Africiné Magazine
- www.sixpackfilm.com/de/catalogue/filmmaker/6701/
Updated by Thierno DIA, 15 May 2024

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