# Mo Harawe (Maxamed Harawe)

> Mo Harawe (born 1992): Mogadishu-born Austrian filmmaker of The Village Next to Paradise (Cannes 2024).

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## Who is he?

Mo Harawe is a Somali-Austrian filmmaker born in Mogadishu in 1992 ([Wikipedia, Mo Harawe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_Harawe)). He attended art school in Somalia and later studied visual communication and film at the Kunsthochschule Kassel in Germany (same source). He moved to Austria in 2009 (same source). See [Somalis in Austria](/en/diaspora/austria/).

## Short films

He made a series of short films from 2012, including *Life on the Horn* (2020) and *Will My Parents Come to See Me* (2022) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_Harawe)). *Life on the Horn* was nominated at Locarno in 2020 (same source). *Will My Parents Come to See Me* was nominated for the Golden Bear for best short film at Berlin in 2022 and for the European Film Awards (same source).

## The Village Next to Paradise

His first feature film, *The Village Next to Paradise*, was selected for the Un Certain Regard section of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_Harawe)).

## In short

A Mogadishu-born director whose first feature film was selected at Cannes in 2024.

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