The Tree of Life

1988 Drama 23 minutes Directed by Abdulkadir Ahmed Said

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About The Tree of Life

In a small town a nomad cuts a tree he needs and brings down the tree that keeps life going. Everything living vanishes. He is left in a desert he does not know. He finds a small tree that is dying and tries to save that one.

Cast & crew

More about The Tree of Life

Abdulkadir Ahmed Said wrote and directed. The Somali title is Geedka nolosha. The Somali Film Agency produced the short.

Themes

  • The wrong tree cut down
  • A world that goes empty
  • A desert that was a town
  • A small tree still alive
  • nomad
  • tree
  • desert
  • Somalia
  • short film

Awards

  • Prize of the City of Torino, Torino International Festival of Young Cinema, 1988, best film in the international short competition

Scenes

  • The life-giving tree falls, and the town is a desert.
  • He stops to keep a small dying tree alive.

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (Tree of Life Geedka nolosha (1988).webm)