Films

Video Tile: SOMALIA: HEARTS, MINDS & HOLY WAR

Channel 4: Unreported World

Languages: English, Somali

Video Description: Robin Barnwell and Aidan Hartley provide an eye-opening account of the most successful Islamic revolution to happen in the world since 9/11, and the setting up of a new Taliban-style state which threatens to export war to the entire horn of Africa. Friday 15 December 2006 7.35pm Westerners are completely absent from Mogadishu, with the situation even more precarious for journalists following the murder of cameraman Martin Adler, shot by an unidentified hit man at an anti-American public rally in June. Immediately clear that militants, known as the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) have seized the capital and are extending their power through both the gun barrel and religious persuasion. While Western powers failed to bring law and order to even a few blocks of Mogadishu and rescue Somalia from years of anarchy and 500,000 deaths, Unreported World shows how UIC has been winning the hearts and minds of ordinary Somalis by quickly brought about a real improvement to their lives.

(Summary Excerpt from IslamicTube.net)

Its new (kinda old now) insight into what happen(ing) in Somalia. In my opinion its very Well Done! Please Watch!!

Movie Title: Somali Voices

Genre: Documentary

Language: English

Producer: Olol Films

Somalia has been in a state of anarchy for the past fifteen years. During the war Somalis fled to different parts of the world adapting different cultures and having a different approach to life. The following are testimonies of over a hundred Somali people from all over the world giving their views on what they think of Somalia and if would want to go back.

Movie Title: Silent Cry

Genre: Documentary

Language: English

Producer: Silent Cry Campaign

A group of young British students, in search for a story, flew far into East Africa where they discovered the documentary film ‘Silent Cry’. The film is based on the lives of families and their struggles in the Ogaden Regions of Ethiopia . Based in the heart of East Africa, the story was discovered after the students met a Taxi driver in Nairobi , Kenya. He shared with them his personal tragedy about the displacing of his family. They then made a trip to IFO, northern Kenya which is the destination located for the survivors of devastating circumstances. Nothing had prepared the team for the circumstances they were to come across. Poverty, neglect and extreme human suffering was widespread.