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The Gravedigger's Wife

2021

A devoted gravedigger scraping by on the outskirts of a Somali city must somehow raise a large sum for his beloved wife's urgent surgery, and sets off on a desperate journey to save her. A tender, luminous drama of love and poverty.

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