Based on the testimony of global FGM activist Ifrah Ahmed, the film is written and directed by Mary McGuckian. Fleeing war-torn Somalia in 2006, Ifrah Ahmed is trafficked to Ireland where a traumatic medical examination when seeking asylum reveals the extent of her mutilation as a child. Traumatised by the memory, she channels the experience into a force for change and emerges as a formidable campaigner against Female Genital Mutilation at the highest political echelons. A Girl from Mogadishu was selected and screened at over fifty film festivals, won many audience and jury awards including at Mill Valley and the Semaine de Cinema Britannique and was the 2020 recipient of the Cinema for Peace Foundation Women’s Empowerment Award during the Berlin Film Festival. It was released by Showtime during the Covid-19 Pandemic and continues to be presented as an impact film worldwide.