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She was a young Somalian growing up in Mogadishu in the middle of civil war - and all Samia Yusuf Omar wanted to do was become a competitive sprinter.

Samia made it all the way to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, despite cultural opposition to a woman becoming a runner.

The movie 'Samia' is now showing at the Tribeca Festival in New York. Tom Brook is there for 麻豆社 Talking Movies.