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★
Djibouti is not a country that tends to feature prominently in film criticism, or in much cultural conversation beyond geopolitical news bulletins. A small nation on the Horn of Africa, bordered by Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia, it has a population of under a million people and a film industry that,
Genre Documentary
★★ — Men in the Arena (2017)
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