By Zac Ntim, Melanie Goodfellow June 23, 2025 1:29am     EXCLUSIVE: Smashing Dandelions, the new production company founded by The Mauritanian writer and producer Michael Bronner and Bhakti Shringarpure,

Sabrina Elba will join the cast of “Nuur.” The upcoming feature from director Lula Ali Ismaïl (“Dhalinyaro”) is being produced by Scythia Films, the banner behind the Oscar-nominated “The Apprentice.”

Scythia Films, the production banner behind “The Apprentice,” has tapped Lula Ali Ismaïl to direct “Nuur,” the story of an academically gifted 17-year-old boy growing up in Dixon, a Somali