Discoveries from Ethiopia World Cinema

Ethiopian comedy film

A Film By Samuel Teshager /Ye Emaye Lij/

"The River" is a film that pays homage to culture and the experiences of women through the lens of Ethiopia and draws inspiration from the director’s childhood home, Kebena. The film not only celebrates the art of beauty, but will also highlight the systemic barriers women face in the context of forced marriage, education and water access.

Helen Tadesse’s debut feature follows a group of siblings in Addis Ababa as they navigate daily survival they had never seen coming following the death of their wealthy parents.

Comedy theater

A film By Yebayush Lij (Sami)

A film by Amaha Duguma Tsehay

A Film by Misgana Atnafu

New Theater

A Film by Teshale Worku

The story of an outsider seducing Ethiopian women.

A film By Fitsum Kassahun Agonafir

ሰውነት ከ ዜግነትም በላይ ነው( Being Human is more valuable than being citizen)

The plot of the Ethiopian film Semayawi Feres (Blue Horse) centers on a man's ambitious quest to harness the potential of the Blue Nile (Abay River) and the complex political controversies surrounding it.

The history of art in Ethiopia. The film emphasizes the styles, materials, etc. ofpaintings on walls and roofs of ancient churche

Hall Rent of the cinema's

A Film By Fitsum Bereket

Finding Sally tells the incredible story of a 23-year-old woman from an upper-class family who became a communist rebel with the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party.

Theater at Hager Fikir Theater

From the music of Peruvian composer Pauchi Sasaki, Mexican-Ethiopian filmmaker Jessica Beshir crafts a story of a spectral mother’s disembodied voice suffusing the atmosphere with tenderness, but never quite reaching the shore of her drifting daughter. This short film is part of the 2x25 Project of Film Fest Gent and the World Soundtrack Awards. The project commissioned 25 composers to compose a short piece of music, after which 25 filmmakers made short films that are the ultimate symbioses of music and cinematography, fitting completely within the DNA of the festival. The result: 25 exceptional films where the music inspired the form, narrative and texture.

A love triangle stretching from Bahir Dahr to Las Vegas. Theodros Teshome's film surpassed his own Kezkaza Welafen as Ethiopia's highest grossing film.

In rural Ethiopia the staff of a health centre are fighting maternal mortality. They tirelessly appeal to women to give birth in the clinic. But reservations are strong, and so are the practical obstacles. How are heavily pregnant women supposed to arrive in time when the ambulance comes hours later or not at all? Against medical advice, Hulu Ager decides to give birth at home, assisted by a traditional midwife.

A theater by Andualem Abate

A Film by Kokeb Birhane (Zufanye)

A Film by Wendemagegn Lemma

A New Theatre in Town

New Theater

New Comedy theater

Produced by Samson Tadesse

A film By Ayelegn Tsega

The film takes the audience inside the head of a schizophrenic patient (Meba) in a mental hospital along with a number of characters with a variety of mental disorders.

Prepared by Batiya Films kib film Presents

El – Sofi Film Production Presents

A film By Abel Regassa

A Film By Yidnekachew Tesfaye

A film By Samuel Kassahun

A Film by Mezmure Dawit

Kaleab and Jemal are two who are willing to endure any travail to reach America and what they deem as a promise of a better life, but is it? Along the way Kaleab meets Winta, who is from neighboring Eritrea and on a similar journey as Kaleab. Kaleab and Winta fall in love with each other as the group of Ethiopians and Eritreans travel an arduous and illegal path from East Africa through Libya, Italy, Mexico and finally to America, but their love for each other is tested thoroughly as the group meets up with violence, sickness and, ultimately, tragedy.

Esayas is a forty something first born guy who still lives with his mother. His younger siblings do everything they can to get him to marry and finally move out of the house.

The film follows two young women as they navigate through their adult life.

School Package

El – Sofi Film Production Presents

Documentary on the Ethiopian orphanage ‘Toukoul’, filmed in Addis Ababa in December 2003

A Film by Mezmure Dawit

Roman Befikadu plays an intellectual woman (Elleni) who is educated abroad and comes back to Ethiopia to run her father’s leather company. Elleni wants to transfer the orderly and timely work experience that she got abroad onto one of the rural areas in Ethiopia without understanding the culture of the society. The film, focuses on the struggle Elleni is confronted with as she attempts this miscalculated social experiment.

A Film By Daniel Anmaw

A film By Kirubel Seyum

Tizeta is a cheerful and bright little girl full of ambitions adored by both her parents. She gets diagnosed with a heart condition that seeks fast treatment. Time is ticking and her parents fail to find adequate financial and community support. Dirdir is a story of an ordinary dad that takes extraordinary measures to save his daughter's life.

On a transformative Easter Eve, a painter reconnects with his faith and a free-spirited woman seeks solace, as the two strangers meet by chance and spend the night unraveling their pasts, facing their fears, and discovering an unexpected, life-changing connection.

A Film By Alazar Salelegn

In contemporary Ethiopia, a farming community's exodus is disrupted when the patriarch of a prominent family disappears from his grave. Tessema, his son, begins to question the church's divine explanation, forcing him to launch his own investigation.

A Film by Ameha Duguma

A film by Nebyu Teshome (Rome)

Theater at Hager Fikir Theater

New Theater

በ ቅድስት ፊልም ፕሮዳክሽን ተዘጋጅቶ በሳሂባ ፊልም ፕሮዳክሽን የቀረበ (Prepared By Kidist Film Production And presented By Sahiba Film Production)

Script and directing Kidist Bayelegn

A Film By Birhanu Werku