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PRESS ARCHIVE

Entertainment.ie | ‘A Girl from Mogadishu’ effectively establishes the horrors of war from the outset.
 

The Times | Film review : A Girl from Mogadishu
 

The Guardian | Real-life story of a Somalian teenager who became a bold activist against FGM delivers
earnest, effective drama

The Up Coming | A girl from Mogadishu by Mary McGuckian
 

El País | The journey of the Somali refugee, from fleeing her country to becoming one of Europe's most influential activists 
 

RTE | Story of Irish-Somali anti-FGM activist comes to screens in new film
 

Global Citizen | 7 African Movies That Highlight the Dangers of Gender-Based Violence
 

IFTN | Mary McGuckian’s feature film won the The Cinema for Peace Woman’s Empowerment’ Award
 

Screen Ireland | A Girl From Mogadishu Wins The Cinema for Peace Woman’s Empowerment’ Award
 

The Times | Irish-Somali activist Ifrah Ahmed on her FGM mission of hope

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RTE Culture | A Girl from Mogadishu debuts in cinemas

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RTE Entertainment.ie | Story of Irish-Somali anti-FGM activist comes to screens in new film

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RTE.ie | A Girl from Mogadishu the story of a new Irish hero

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Irish Examiner | Film Director Mary McGuckian Takes On Female Genital Mutilation in “A Girl From Mogadhishu”

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Evening Echo | Film shows us the power that one person can wield

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Black Film | A Girl From Mogadishu – Review by Donna Torrence

 

Business Post | A history of violence: Ifrah Ahmed's campaign to end female genital mutilation

 

RTE | A Girl from Mogadishu gets Dublin Festival premiere

 

Le Peuple Breton |  Two exceptional women for the fight against excision!

 

Women and Hollywood | EIFF 2019 Women Directors: Meet Mary McGuckian – “A Girl from Mogadishu”

 

Newstalk | Screentime with John Fardy - Podcast; 29minutes 50 seconds

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Irish Examiner | Film Director Mary McGuckian Takes On Female Genital Mutilation in “A Girl From Mogadhishu”

RFI | New Anglo-African generation at 2019 Dinard Film Festival

Ouest France | Dinard Film Festival. The fate of Ifrah Ahmed to discover on screen

Unidivers | Girl from Mogadishu Film: To End the Excision

The Guardian | How Ifrah Ahmed, the girl from Mogadishu, took her FGM story to the world

Deadline | ‘A Girl From Mogadishu’: Aja Naomi King Leads Female Empowerment Story – AFM

Variety | ‘How to Get Away With Murder’s’ Aja Naomi King to Star in ‘A Girl From Mogadishu’

Shadow and Act | Aja Naomi King to star in ‘A Girl From Mogadishu’ story of Somali refugee and gender-based violence activist

Media Box | Beginning of filming in Brussels for "A Girl from Mogadishu"

AllAfrica | Somalia: A Star Studded Movie On a Somali Refugee "A Girl From Mogadishu" Starts Filming in Belgium

Screen Daily | FEATURES AFM 2017: The buzz titles from North America

Variety | AFM: Brian O’Shea Talks Social Drama With ‘Girl From Mogadishu’

E Online | Aja Naomi King Is the New Face of L'Oreal Paris

WWD | Cannes 2018: Aja Naomi King on the Adrenaline Kick of Cannes and Her Love of Fuzzy Socks

Shape | Aja Naomi King On Staying Committed to Tough Workouts and Causes That Matter

The Times | Number 4 studio gets to the Point

The Glow Up | Aja Naomi King Gets Powerful for the Cover of Shape's September Issue

Hot Press |  Dublin International Film Fest Announces Addition Of More Films

Film Ireland | ‘A Girl from Mogadishu’ Gala Screening at Odeon Point Village

RTE | A Girl from Mogadishu gets Dublin Festival premiere

Thomson Reuters Foundation | Somali refugee's fight against 'silent killer' of FGM inspires film

Evoke | A Girl From Mogadishu triumphs at the Virgin Media International Film Festival

The Times | Number 4 studio gets to the Point

The Root | Aja Naomi King Gets Powerful for the Cover of Shape's September Issue

Sunday Times | Girl from Mogadishu film tells of hidden FGM menace

Entertainment.ie | "A highly commendable watch, hopeful as well as inspiring” - Review by Deirdre Molumby

Film Threat |  “…but as escaping a place for dear life usually entails, things didn’t go as planned.”

AWFJ | Review by Sarah Ward

The Hollywood Reporter | A superb re-make of Patrick Leconte’s 2002 film, Man on the Train

Variety | The Man on the Train is a leisurely paced but consistently engrossing tale

Irish Central | The story of Eileen Gray, Irish feminist icon, finally comes to the screen

Architecture Lab | The Price of Desire by Mary McGuckian

Independent.ie | Mary McGuckian - writer and director of Eileen Gray biopic The Price of Desire 

Irish Central | The story of Eileen Gray, Irish feminist icon, finally comes to the screen

L.A. Times | ‘A telenovela of architecture’

Wallpaper | Eileen Gray's renovated E-1027 villa reopens in Côte d'Azur

Screen Daily | Mary McGuckian and Larry Mullen Jr

Hollywood Reporter | Man on the Train: Cannes 2011 Review

Variety | The Man on the Train

Independent | The decline of the world's leading film festival

Northern Stars | Inconceivable Review

Film Intuition | Intervention film review

The Guardian | Mary McGuckian's Rag Tale is a satirical farce presenting the staff of a British tabloid

Variety | Rag Tale film review

Variety | The Bridge of San Luis Rey film review

La Voz De Cádiz | Geraldine Chaplin enthusiastic about Spanish cinema and Candela Peña

Time Out | Best Film Review

Screen Daily | A biopic of George Best, the sports superstar whose celebrity had evaporated into a cloud
 

Variety | This Is the Sea

Variety | Words Upon the Window Pain

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