Discoveries from Ethiopia World Cinema

A Film By Behailu Engida

Duka, a young unmarried Hamar girl learns what awaits her in life from the older women of her tribe. Their often humorous conversations range from teenage pregnancy and growing old to relationships with men. Although the men are dominant, the women are not servile and on occasion will mock the posturing of the men. The women's high spirits are revealed during the harvest celebrations and the blessing ceremony for a new baby. Young women avoid the watchful eyes of their elders as they flirt and dance.

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When Phil discovers that he wasn't an Orphan at adoption, he risks everything - including his life, to uncover the tortuous corruption between his developing birth-country and the Western World.

an impending “dirty bomb” attack in Addis Ababa supposedly by the Somali militant organization Al-Shabab with the help of a local Muslim businessman suddenly turns into a complex conspiracy attack against Ethiopia.

New Theater

Wawago new theater

YE WONZ MAIBEL: DELUGE is a personal visual meditation on history, conflict and the roads to reconciliation. It is a tale of love and betrayal, of idealism and the lure of power. It is a memorial to a brother who disappeared and a best friend, executed. It is a story of the Ethiopian students, their “Revolution” and its aftermath – a brutal military dictatorship.

Two young men represent their final abandoned community of Ethiopian Jews on a fateful trip to America as representatives in an advocacy campaign, with the ultimate goal to enter Israel as citizens.

የ ኤልያስ ወርቅነህ ፊልም (A Film By Elias Workneh)

In the district of Katanga, in Addis Ababa, Amele and her makeshift hostel welcome young people seeking refuge in the Ethiopian capital. Every day sees the arrival of a new person, a new experience, a new story. The filmmakers sensitively paint the portrait of a place and its residents.

A romantic drama that explores themes of love and the emotional challenges that come with modern relationships

A Film by Bereket Tesfaye

A Film By kidist Yilma

A Film By Mustejab Detamo

Happy families gets the hardships and ups and downs of the family with the illness of their beloved young girl.

If you want your child not to fall, you should be careful

Bilatena tells us the story of Abi, a young boy who is representative of million of children in Africa who do not attend school and work to sustain their families. Childhood Destroyed from Chad tells a similar story from a girl's perspective. Bilatena also introduces us to the problems of the Ethiopian health system. Abi, a dynamic and resourceful twelve year old boy, lives with his mother Degua and his 26 year old university graduate unemployed brother Zelalem (Zele). Abi, who is a a hyper-industrious hard working 12-year-old boy with two jobs, supports his poor mother and his older unemployed brother through their day to day lives. But when their mother dies of Hepatitis B and Abi is also infected with the virus, Zele must face the big challenge of supporting his own life and keeping his younger brother alive by earning the 20,000 Ethiopian birr per month needed for his brother's medication.

Tells the plight of Ethiopian migrant workers in Saudi Arabia.

The three protagonists play, eat and argue together. In this, at least, they are no different from other boys their age. But they are different in one crucial way, because nine-year-old Daniel and Habtom and Yohannes, both aged 12, live on the street, sleeping in an abandoned car on the side of the road. Without money or any form of adult support, they struggle to survive in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. And there are around 270,000 other street kids like them. The film records the three boys’ daily lives without being overly sentimental.

A love story about a deeply connected couple, Meron and Abraham.

Best friends Helina and Gelila travel from Addis Ababa to Bahir Dar for Helina’s younger sister’s wedding. On the way, they meet two men who are traveling for fieldwork. What starts as a simple meeting on the road eventually turns into something sinister.

Zema Hiwot, ("Musical Life") is a two hour romantic tragedy based on the story of a young Ethiopian woman who faces challenge after challenge despite the kindness of her heart.

Derived from a renowned Ethiopian play, the film deals about an endangered marriage at the time the couple is expecting their first baby.

New comedy movie byYoliyan T/mariam

Hidar, a woman in her 20s faced with an unexpected grief making it hard for her to accept and react to it. The film depicts the stages of grief and the effects in their day to day life.

A film by Robel Assefa and Andualem Dejene

A film By Bizuayehu Alemu

A Film by Surafel Kidane

Duka is now a mother with a two-year-old daughter and a six-month-old baby boy. Her life is dominated by caring for them and her husband, Sago. Although Sago and Duka seem to have an affectionate marriage, he beats her when provoked. Like every Hamar woman, she accepts this behavior for she believes it is a man's way of loving. The film witnesses Sago's cousin's ceremonial initation into manhood. At the ceremony Duka and the other women sing and dance themselves into a frenzy before being ritually whipped until their backs bleed. As they return home, Sago and Duka talk about their hopes for their children. Later, we see Sago and Duka's reaction to seeing television for the first time, as they watch the earlier film of their courting days.

The Surmas live in the Kibish River Valley, in southern Ethiopia, where modern man was born 195,000 years ago. They hold up the mirror to us of a past in which we can recognize ourselves, despite the geographical and cultural distance. This semi-nomadic people who depend on livestock is not well known. Traditional donga fighting, a duel with sticks, earned them a reputation for brutality which keeps outsiders at a distance. In fact, the donga is a martial art that celebrates values necessary for survival in a region torn by tribal warfare. This nation of 28,000 souls possesses nothing other than its livestock. Its impoverished condition is an art of extreme living that commands respect.

Fire does not choose Race.

produced by Tariku

Afilm By Zekarias Wendifraw

KATEKSE FILM PRODUCTION Presents A Film By Leul Solomon.

A New comedy theatre Presented by Hamlet Multimedia

The film is part of the Guardians of Productive Landscapes series and a sequel to 'Abraham and Sarah I: Creators of a productive landscape'. A Tigrean farmer and his wife, who host pilgrims to a festival at the Gundagundo monastery, have gained the biblical names Abraham and Sarah. We see Sarah and other women prepare food and drink for the pilgrims, while Abraham and other men erect a shelter. At dawn dozens of pilgrims descend the steep escarpment, eventually arriving at Gundagundo where celebrations are in full swing. We witness highlights of the festival, and the pilgrims' return to the homestead of Abraham and Sarah. Here they receive food, drink and shelter, and sing the praises of their hosts. At midnight visitors arrive with an old, sick monk. Before the guests depart next morning, a monk thanks and blesses Abraham and Sarah.

Enset, which is related to the banana plant, is very drought resistant and a good source of carbohydrates (in the stem and underground bulb). Enset has been farmed from time immemorial in the Gamo Highlands of southern Ethiopia, where women are the main cultivators. The film focuses on Aiye, the filmmaker's grandmother, who shares her knowledge about the enset plant, and shows how it is possible to produce good organic food by using simple farming tools and natural fertilizers. We see how she and a young kinswoman cultivate (using animal dung and organic waste to fertilize the plants), propagate (generating suckers from the corm), harvest (digging up the plant) and process (scraping and fermentating) the enset, and finally produce a variety of nutritious dishes.

A family welcomes an uncle into their home that was released from prison. They later find out that he has sexually assaulted their young daughter Fiona.

Enkopa depicts the struggles of a young Ethiopian woman, Enkopa, who wants to travel to Canada through neighboring country Sudan illegally in search of a better life.

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was a scheduled flight serving the route Addis Ababa–Nairobi–Brazzaville–Lagos–Abidjan. On 23 November 1996, the plane was hijacked en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi by three Ethiopians seeking asylum in Australia. The plane crash-landed in the Indian Ocean near Grande Comore, Comoros Islands due to fuel exhaustion.

Gaga, a one-eyed, no-tongue homicidal manace with a mysterious past goes on a killing spree.

A person who is inside a perfect solo environment, thinks he is kidnapped, but he was not. He has only a telephone as a way of communication.

If you don't face it, you won't win.

The movie follows a street dance competition and hip-hop music scene in Addis Ababa, focusing on the romance between the lead characters within this competitive environment.

A Film by Fuad Mustefa

An indictment of the atrocities and conflict caused by Ethiopia's Dergue Regime.

Set in 1972, in a season of hot Political turmoil that started the downfall of the Emperor and the mass executions of top officials, Abraham Gezahagn tells us about a child’s struggle to cope with societal ignorance of moral crime. In the paradigm of the story, the unknown narrator (as an adult) tells us a story about his mother (Misrak) and his childhood experience. He tells us about his father’s death, which paved the way for his mother’s mental instability. “Politics, love and tragedy: one family’s epic tale.”

The first successful full length action feature Amharic movie.

Afilm by Tesfatsion Mekuria

This romantic drama stars Sayat Demissie and Leoul Solomon. The plot follows Wondwossen, a 20-year-old with a mental disorder, and his relationship with Fikir.

A story of a young woman Afyam who has to decide between an arranged marriage or love.

A Film By Mesfin H/eyesus and Amelework Mezemer

By Comedian Yasin Redu

Standup Comedy

After a shocking discovery by a scientist about the health benefits of eating a Zombie’s brain, everything changed. The world was never the same. Humans started hunting Zombies by any means necessary and destroyed the world in the process. The film follows a Zombie, Abu, who is hunted by a human for his brain.