8 Films & TV Shows Set In Djibouti

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  The Gravedigger’s Wife

  🇩🇯 Djibouti 🇸🇴 Somalia

  Guled and Nasra are a loving couple, living in the outskirts of Djibouti city with their teenage son, Mahad. However, they are facing difficult times: Nasra urgently needs an expensive surgery to treat a chronic kidney disease. Guled is already working hard as a gravedigger to make ends meet.

  Released in 2021 • 82 minutes
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  15 Minutes of War

  🇩🇯 Djibouti The 1970s

  February 1976. Somalian rebels hijack a school bus carrying 21 French children and their teacher in Djibouti City. When the terrorists drive it to a no-man’s-land on the border between Somalia and French territory, the French Government sends out a newly formed elite squad to rescue the hostages. Within a few hours, the highly trained team arrives to the crisis area, where the Somalian National Army has taken position behind the barbed wire on the border. The French unit is left with very few options to rescue the hostages. As the volatile situation unravels, the French men quickly come up with a daring plan: carry out a simultaneous 5 men sniper attack to get the children and the teacher out safely. A true story.

  Released in 2019 • 98 minutes
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  Sicario: Day of the Soldado

  Ciudad de México New Mexico Kansas Texas 🇩🇯 Djibouti 🇸🇴 Somalia

  No rules this time — Agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smuggling terrorists across the United States border.

  Released in 2018 • 122 minutes
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  Beau Travail

  🇫🇷 France 🇩🇯 Djibouti

  Maybe freedom begins with remorse — Foreign Legion officer Galoup recalls his once glorious life, training troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, until the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in Galoup's mind.

  Released in 1999 • 93 minutes
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  Empty Quarter: A Woman in Africa

  🇪🇬 Egypt 🇩🇯 Djibouti

  A man invites a woman to share his room in a hostel and gradually falls in love with her.

  Released in 1985 • 85 minutes
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  The Dirty Game

  🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇹 Italy 🇩🇯 Djibouti The 20th Century

  The world they rule is a world of shadows. — A U.S. intelligence general (Robert Ryan) recalls three Cold War cases of Soviet (Henry Fonda), French and Italian (Vittorio Gassman) spies.

  Released in 1965 • 113 minutes
• Il grande appello

  🇩🇯 Djibouti 🇪🇷 Eritrea 🇪🇹 Ethiopia

  Directed by Mario Camerini.

  Released in 1936 •
• La voie sans disque

  🇩🇯 Djibouti 🇪🇹 Ethiopia

  Released in 1933 •