Neighbour Abdi (2022)

  • NR
  • 08/03/2022 (CH)
  • Documentary
  • 29m

Overview

How can you understand a violent past? Somali-born Abdi is furniture designer and support worker. He reenacts his life, marked by war and criminality, with the help of his neighbor and filmmaker Douwe. By means of playful reconstructions in a special effects studio, Abdi and Douwe embark on a candid and investigative journey through a painful history, focusing on the creative process throughout.

Douwe Dijkstra

Director, Screenplay

Abdiwahab Ali

Screenplay

Cast

Douwe Dijkstra's headshot

Douwe Dijkstra

self
Abdiwahab Ali's headshot

Abdiwahab Ali

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Ahmed Dualeh's headshot

Ahmed Dualeh

Sharif Nuur's headshot

Sharif Nuur

Young Abdi

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