Ibrahim Mursal Warsame (Arabic: إبراهيم مُرسال, born 1990 ) is a Norwegian film director of Sudanese and Somali origins.
[1] He is known for writing and directing The Art of Sin, a documentary about openly gay Sudanese artist Ahmed Umar.
[5] He completed a Film and Photographic Arts workshop at Goethe-Institute Sudan in 2012 which (re)kindled his interest in filmmaking.
[18][19] Despite growing up in a religiously conservative community, Mursal's work ventures into progressive movements that challenge gender roles,[20] culture,[21] taboos,[22] etc.
His films 2017, The art of being a sinner, A conversation with my gay friend and 2022 The Art of Sin (Arabic: فن الخطيئة) were delicate portrait of the Sudanese-Norwegian artist and LGBT activist Ahmed Umer, who campaigns for gay visibility in Sudan and seeks new form to express his new Norwegian identity while embracing being Sudanese.