The Gravediggers Wife: exclusive first trailer for Cannes Critics Week title

Khadar Ayderus Ahmed’s The Gravedigger’s Wife has its world premiere in Cannes Critics’ Week in July. Set in Djibouti City in the Horn of Africa, it stars Finnish-Somali actor Omar Abdi as a struggling gravedigger on a quest to raise the money for the kidney transplant desperately needed by his beloved wife, played by Canadian-Somali model and actress Yasmin Warsame. The family drama plays out against the colourful backdrop of the makeshift homes and teeming streets of Djibouti City, which has rarely been captured on the big screen before.