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Original title (SO): Tuulada ku xigta Jannada (The Village Next to Paradise)

Mamargade spends his days tending to a dusty public restroom on the edge of a Somali village, scraping together a modest life for himself and his spirited young son, Cigaal. With little more than a mop and quiet determination, he tries to offer stability in a place where opportunity comes in narrow windows—often opened by leaving. When his sister pursues a high-risk plan to migrate abroad, the family’s fragile balance begins to shift, forcing Mamargade to reconsider what it means to stay behind.

With a photographer’s eye and a patient rhythm, Somali director Mo Harawe builds a tactile sense of place where routine tasks—filling water jugs, sweeping sand, waiting—carry the weight of survival and small acts of hope. The film is steeped in lived-in detail, inviting viewers to see beyond headlines and stereotypes of the Horn of Africa.

The Village Next to Paradise finds quiet power in what its characters are willing to carry for one another. In a landscape shaped by absence—of resources, of certainty—Harawe captures the emotional texture of those who stay behind, and those who leave, out of love. Without grand declarations or sweeping drama, drawing strength from the everyday sacrifices that tether families together, even as geography threatens to pull them apart.

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