Mo HARAWE is a director, screenwriter, cinematographer and producer.

He is known for ‘Life on the Horn’ (2020, Short Drama, B&W), ‘1947’ (2020, Short Drama), ‘The story of the polar bear that wanted to go to Africa’ (2018, Short Drama). Mo Harawe was born in Mogadishu (Somalia).

Since 2009, he has lived in Vienna (Austria), where he began making films. He has taken part in numerous film workshops and has made five short films that have won awards at international festivals.

He also works as a screenwriter and his feature-length screenplay ‘To Mogadishu’, developed at the Diverse Geschichten screenplay lab, won the Dor Film award at the Diagonale in 2016. In 2019, Harawe won the BKA Startstipendium for his new feature, ‘The Village Next to Paradise’ which is in selection for Un certain regard at the Cannes Film Festival. His short film ‘Life on the Horn’ won the Tanit d'Or (Grand Prix) at the JCC - Carthage Film Festival 2021 (Tunisia).

Mo Harawe has directed a multi-award-winning short film, Will My Parents Come To See Me? which won the Grand Prize in the international competition at the Clermont Festival. It tells the story of a policewoman accompanying a young prisoner, Farah, who is about to be executed.