Samia
Directed by Yasemin Şamdereli
2024Feature102 minItalyPG
In Mogadishu, where a woman is not supposed to run, a young woman defies every taboo to race through the streets, and all the way to the Olympic Games.
Synopsis
Samia defies taboos by racing through the streets of Mogadishu, in a society where a woman is not supposed to run. Her passion will one day take her to the Olympic Games.
The director
Yasemin Şamdereli
Yasemin Şamdereli is a German-Turkish writer-director whose debut Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011) was a hit at the Berlinale and at the German box office. Samia tells the true story of Somali sprinter Samia Yusuf Omar.
Press
“A repressive society. A woman determined to disobey the rules imposed on her. We’ve seen that story before, and will again, but here’s a particularly good version of it.”
“Touching and sympathetic.”
“Emotionally moving.”
“*Samia* is less about sports than it is about survival.”
On screens
Already played at 17 cinemas in Sudbury, Vancouver, Barrie, Windsor, Haliburton, Victoria, Ottawa, Collingwood, Toronto, Revelstoke, Gaspésie, Southampton, Halton Hills, West Vancouver and more.
