The Gravedigger's Wife is a drama film, directed by Khadar Ayderus Ahmed and released in 2021.
[1] The film is a coproduction of companies from France, Somalia, Germany and Finland.
[2] Ahmed's feature debut, the film was inspired by a death in his own family approximately a decade earlier.
[1] It was subsequently screened at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, where it was one of the winners of the Amplify Voices Award.
[5] Guled (Omar Abdi), a gravedigger in Djibouti, is struggling to raise money to pay for surgery when his wife Nasra (Yasmin Warsame) becomes gravely ill with kidney disease.