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The cinema of Somalia refers to the film industry in Somalia. The earliest forms of public film display in the country were Italian newsreels of key events during the colonial period. In 1937 the film Sentinels of Bronze (awarded in the Venice Film Festival) was produced in Ogaden Somalia, with nearly all Somali actors. [1]
IMDB - Somalia; Kaplan, Irving (1977). Area handbook for Somalia. U.S. Govt. Print. Off. Legum, Colin; John Gordon Stewart Drysdale (1976). Africa contemporary record, Volume 8. Africana Pub. Co. ISBN 0-86036-030-X. Ministry of Information and National Guidance (1974). Somalia: five years of revolutionary progress. Ministry of Information and ...
Marks the independence of British Somaliland on June 26, 1960. Five days later it joined Italian Somaliiland as the Somali Republic. [1] 1 July Republic Day: Marks the unification of the former Italian and British Somalilands as the Somali Republic on July 1, 1960. [2] Islamic lunar calendar 12 Rabi'-ul-Awwal: Birthday of Muhammad: Mawlid Nabi ...
26 June. Next time. 26 June 2025. (2025-06-26) Frequency. annual. Independence Day of Somaliland is an annual celebration and a public holiday in Somaliland and neighbouring Somalia that commemorates the proclamation of independence of the short-lived independent State of Somaliland on 26 June 1960. [1]
Somalia submitted a film for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film [nb 1] for the first time in 2021. [3] The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non- English dialogue. [4]
Following Somalia's independence in 1960, the Ministry of Tourism was established in order to regulate the national tourist industry. [1] In 1969, the Law on Fauna (Hunting) and Forest Conservation was passed, which defined and provided for the establishment of controlled areas, game reserves and partial game reserves. It was later amended in ...
On October 15, 1969, while paying a visit to the northern town of Las Anod, Somalia's then President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke was shot dead by one of his own bodyguards. His assassination was quickly followed by a military coup d'état on October 21, 1969 (the day after his funeral), in which the Somali Army seized power without encountering ...
V. The Village Next to Paradise. Categories: Cinema of Somalia. Films by country of setting. Films set in Africa by country. Somalia in fiction. Works set in Somalia. Hidden category: