# Ibrahim Mursal Warsame

> Ibrahim Mursal (b.1990): Somali-born Norwegian filmmaker, director of The Art of Sin.

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## Who is he?

Ibrahim Mursal Warsame is a Norwegian film director of Sudanese and Somali origins ([Wikipedia, Ibrahim Mursal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Mursal)). He was born in Somalia in 1990, and his family fled during the civil war (same source).

## Sudan

In [Sudan](/en/diaspora/sudan/) he earned a bachelor's degree in oil and gas exploration from the Sudan University of Science and Technology in 2012 ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Mursal)). A film and photography workshop at the Goethe-Institut Sudan that year led him into filmmaking, and his first short, *50 Piasters*, was shown at the first Sudan Independent Film Festival (same source). He was on the organising team of TEDxKhartoum, which Sudan's intelligence service shut down in May 2013 (same source).

## Norway

After twelve years in Sudan he settled in Norway, where he runs Warsame Movies ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Mursal)). He wrote and directed *The Art of Sin*, a documentary about the Sudanese artist Ahmed Umar (same source). See [Somalis in Norway](/en/diaspora/norway/).

## In short

A Somali-born filmmaker shaped by twelve years in Sudan, now working in Norway.

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