Country: Italy
Year: 2026
Duration: 62'
On a remote stretch of the Somali coast, where fishing is becoming less and less profitable, local communities are forced to hunt sharks to ensure their survival. Crushed by debt, exhaustion, and addiction, a man becomes obsessed with a legendary golden-skinned shark, the sale of which could free him from debt and suffering. Armed with an old spear and aboard a small wooden boat, he sets out to sea, suspended between reality and hallucination.
Biography
film director
Mohamoud Hassan
(Somalia) is a Somali journalist and filmmaker. His work emerges from a close relationship with the landscapes, tensions and contradictions of contemporary Somalia. Moving between non-fiction storytelling and visual research, he focuses on dignity, survival and belonging.
FILMOGRAFIA
Somalia (co-regia Giuseppe Carrieri, doc, 2026)
Giuseppe Carrieri
(Napoli, Italy, 1985) is an Italian director, writer, university professor and explorer. In 2013, with In Utero Srebrenica, he portrayed Bosnian mothers searching for the remains of their children twenty years after the genocide: the film received a David di Donatello nomination for Best Documentary and numerous international awards. He later directed Hanaa (2018) and Le metamorfosi (2019), his first experiment in the form of a documentary fable. In 2025, he directed La quinta stagione, presented at Giornate degli autori during in Venice. He teaches Film Directing at IULM University in Milan, where he coordinates IULMovie LAB.
FILMOGRAFIA
The Alphabet of the River (doc, mm, 2012), With Stars on Fingertips (doc, mm, 2012), In Utero Srebrenica (doc, 2013), Hanaa (doc, 2018), Le Metamorfosi (doc, 2019), Mezzanotte (doc, cm, 2021), Champs-Elysées (doc, cm, 2023), La quinta stagione (doc, 2025), Somalia (co-regia Mohamoud Hassan, doc, 2026).
Declaration
film director
“Somalia was born from the urgency to inhabit cinematically a place where the sea is not a horizon, but a sentence, a call, a form of belonging. From the beginning, we wanted to approach this reality without exotic filters or narrative simplifications, searching for a form capable of holding together its material harshness and its visionary force.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Giuseppe Carrieri, Mohamoud Hassan. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Pepsy K. EDITING: Carlotta Marrucci. MUSIC: Edmondo Riccardo Annoni. SOUND: Massimiliano Santillo, Tommaso Barbaro. CAST: Mohamed Ahmed Ali “Gagale”. PRODUCTION: Giuseppe Carrieri per Natia Docufilm. COPRODUCTION: Andrea Italia per Nieminen Film, Beppe Manzi, Erika Ponti per Oki Doki Film. CONTACT: Giuseppe Carrieri carrierigiuseppe@gmail.com
