NUUR
Nuur is a sensitive and academically gifted 17-year-old boy growing up in Toronto’s Somali community in Dixon. Caught between his faith, intellectual ambitions, and fractured family life, Nuur faces a perilous journey that highlights themes of migration, identity, and belonging.
The film is adapted from the novel “The Youth of God” by Hassan Ghedi Santur.
Directed by: Lula Ali Ismail
Written by: Hassan Ghedi Santur.
Starring: Sabrina Elba