
The Village Next to Paradise

In a windy Somali village, a newly assembled family must navigate between their different aspirations and the complex world surrounding them. Love, trust and resilience will power them through their life paths.
Filmdaten
- Genre
- Drama
- Category
- Feature Film, New Talent
- Financing
- Majoritäre Koproduktion
- Format
- DCP, 100 Min
- Release
- 08.11.2024
- Distribution
- FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
- Admissions
- 5.469
- Funding Film Institute
- 482.000 €
- Share of Austrian production costs
- 25 %
- Share of total production costs
- 25 %
- Funding ÖFI+
- 303.400 €
- Share of total production costs
- 16 %
- Television investment
- 243.000 €
- Co-production
Kazak Production (FR, 19%), NiKo Film (DE) und Maanmaal ACC (SO)
- International funding
Cinémas du Monde – Centre National du Cinéma et de L’image Animée – Institut Français, Région Ile de France, World Cinema Fund
- funding_program
- DVD/VoD
- 08.05.2025
- Pay TV
- 08.11.2025
- Free TV
- 08.05.2026
- Film location
- Somalia
- Shooting time
- June - September 2023
- Days of shooting
- 64
- Start of shooting
- 25.06.2023
- Completion
- Fall 2024
- Funding institutions Austria
- Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien
Credits
- Production
- FreibeuterFilm GmbH
- Producer Austria
- Oliver Neumann, Sabine Moser
- Director
- Mo Harawe
- Script
- Mo Harawe
- DOP
- Mostafa El Kashef
- Editor
- Joana Scrinzi
- Sound engineer
- Willis Abuto, Anne Gibourg, Guadalupe Cassius, Christophe Vingtrinier
- Sound design
- Julien Roig
- Costume design
- Sarah Ismail
- Set design
- Nuur Abdulkadir
- Green Film Consultant
- Vassili Firsov
- Cast
- Ahmed Ali Farah (Mamargade), Anab Ahmed Ibrahim (Araweelo), Ahmed Mohamud Saleban (Cigaal)
- Production manager
- Lena Krins
- Television investment
- ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), ARTE ZDF
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