( The Tree of Life ) (1988) : This 23-minute short film by director Abdulkadir Ahmed Said offered a powerful, allegorical narrative about environmental destruction. It achieved international acclaim, winning the Prize of the City of Torino at the Torino International Festival of Young Cinema.
The outbreak of the civil war in 1991 was a cinematic apocalypse. The Somali Film Agency’s headquarters were looted and burned. Thousands of reels of film—including master copies of the films above—were destroyed, sold as scrap, or rotted in the humidity. For over a decade, "Somali cinema" meant and clan-war propaganda tapes shot on VHS. Www Somali Sex Video Com