Film Screening - The Gravedigger’s Wife
Sat, May 23
|Sankofa Video Books & Café
Join us for a special screening of The Gravedigger’s Wife, presented in collaboration with Positive Productions and Luuq Cafe. Followed by Q & A with the audience.
Time & Location
May 23, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Sankofa Video Books & Café, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
Guests
About The Event
In Collaboration with Positive Productions Inc & Luuq Cafe
THE GRAVEDIGGER’S WIFE (2021)
Directed by Khadar Ayderus Ahmed
Guled is a gravedigger in Djibouti, waiting outside a hospital each day for the next body to bury. When his beloved wife Nasra falls gravely ill with kidney disease, he must find the equivalent of a year’s wages in far less time to pay for her surgery, setting him on a journey that tests everything he has. Khadar Ayderus Ahmed’s debut feature premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week in 2021, won the Amplify Voices Award at TIFF, and was Somalia’s first ever submission to the Academy Awards. Both films are in Somali with English subtitles.