Somalia screens its first movie in 30 years

On Wednesday, the National Theater of Somalia in Mogadishu hosted the country’s first movie screening in 30 years. The theater opened in 1967, a gift from Mao Zedong, but shut down at the start of Somalia’s civil war in 1991. During the past three decades, it was targeted by suicide bombers and used as a base by warlords. Marco Werman speaks with Ibrahim CM, the Somali director whose films were shown at the historic screening.

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