Djibouti's film industry is one of the world's smallest, with the tiny Horn of Africa nation only recently beginning to produce its own features and documentaries. Men in the Arena offers a rare window into this overlooked corner of world cinema. See what Macca made of it below.
Rating: 3.0★
There's a phrase that gets thrown around a lot in film writing: "you've never seen anything quite like this." Most of the time it's hyperbole. With Youth (original title Dhalinyaro), directed by Lula Ali Ismaïl, it happens to be literally true. This
Genre Documentary
★★ — Men in the Arena (2017)
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