The Norwegian documentary that premieres tomorrow in official competition at IDFA has been picked by sales company Cinephil. The news was first announced in Variety.

Cinephil has an established relationship with Norway’s Piraya Film that produced Mogadishu Soldier, in co-production with Finland’s Making Movies and Denmark’s Wingman Media, with support amongst other from Nordisk Film & TV Fond.

The documentary by Torstein Grude explores life in war-torn Somalia through the eyes of two Burundian soldiers deployed there to fight the Islamist extremists Al-Shebaab. The director gave the soldiers a camera with instructions to film whatever they wanted. After a year, they came back with 523 tapes of material that was then edited by the award-winning editor Niels Pagh Andersen from a screenplay by Grude. Joshua Oppenheimer who acts as executive producer said the film is an “urgent, haunting look at our secret wars, through the eyes of the men we use to fight them.”

The film is competing at Amsterdam’s IDFA film festival for Best Feature Length Film. On Sunday Niels Pagh Andersen will discuss the editing of Mogadishu Soldier during a Q&A session at IDFA.

Previous documentaries handled by Cinephil include Oppenheimer’s award-winning The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, co-produced by Piraya Film.