On Wednesday, the National Theater of Somalia in Mogadishu hosted the country’s first movie screening in 30 years. The theater opened in 1967, a gift from Mao Zedong, but shut down at the start of Somalia’s civil war in 1991. During the past three decades, it was targeted by suicide bombers and used as a base by warlords. Marco Werman speaks with Ibrahim CM, the Somali director whose films were shown at the historic screening.
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