Naima Mohamud’s “Halima” has won the Best Project Award at this year’s Haugesund Film Festival.
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Jury members Bartholomew Sammut, Magdalena Banasik and Petri Kemppinen appreciated the “enormous amount of warmth and empathy” and the “moving and entertaining” presentation of the project.
“[It is] a film that delves into a story that we have not seen from Finland before,” they argued.
“Halima” — produced by Jani Pösö and Anita Hyppönen for Finland’s It’s Alive Films, also behind Oscar entry “Euthanizer,” and Hannu Aukia for No-Office Films — is set in the 1990s, when a 10-year-old Somali girl struggles to make friends. Her family, now living in Finland, moves far too often.
