In the new film "Ayaanle", a Somali actor living in a poor neighbourhood in Nairobi dreams of a breakthrough role to take him to Hollywood but is frustrated when he's only ever cast as a pirate or ...

Whenever he told people he was from Somalia, film director Mo Harawe says he “began to notice some patterns" about the sorts of images people had about the country. Harawe tells Middle East Eye ...

Somalia has hosted its first public film-screening in 30 years - raising hopes of a cultural revival in the war-ravaged country. Two short films by Somali director Ibrahim CM were shown at the ...

Paul Greengrass' strategy for ratcheting up the tension in Captain Phillips included keeping Tom Hanks and the actors playing ...

Dark Castle Entertainment is set to produce, develop, and finance the claustrophobic thriller film Zealot , which stars ...

He fled Somalia's civil war with his family and ended up in Finland aged 16 - and has never made it to film school. "God knows how many times I applied for film school but never got in," he told ...

Jude Law crime thriller 'The Order' has been set as the opener of the upcoming Marrakech Film Festival, which has unveiled a richly assorted lineup.