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- A young lawyer travels to an Ethiopian village to represent Hirut, a 14-year-old girl who shot her would-be husband as he and others were practicing one of the nation's oldest traditions: abduction into marriage.
- A young nurse saves a little girl from a deadly conflict zone, then soon finds herself in the center of the conflict.
- When an Ethiopian boy moves in with distant relatives he takes his pet sheep with him but the upcoming holidays spell danger for his beloved friend.
- A spiritual journey into the highlands of Harar, immersed in the rituals of khat, a leaf Sufi Muslims chewed for centuries for religious meditations - and Ethiopia's most lucrative cash crop today.
- In Ethiopia, two men are running to achieve their dreams.
- The Ethiopian intellectual Anberber returns to his native country during the repressive totalitarian regime of Haile Mariam Mengistu and the recognition of his own displacement and powerlessness at the dissolution of his people's humanity and social values. After several years spent studying medicine in Germany, he finds the country of his youth replaced by turmoil. His dream of using his craft to improve the health of Ethiopians is squashed by a military junta that uses scientists for its own political ends. Seeking the comfort of his countryside home, Anberber finds no refuge from violence. The solace that the memories of his youth provide is quickly replaced by the competing forces of military and rebelling factions. Anberber needs to decide whether he wants to bear the strain or piece together a life from the fragments that lie around him.
- The illiterate but clever farmer, Gezahegn, travels to a small town called "Dibab" in search of his missing son. The people of Dibab believe that his son has left for Addis Abeba in pursuit of a better life. However, Gezahegn finds unsent letters in his son's room regarding the town's residents, indicating that something wrong might have happened to him. Gezahegn starts to take the path of his past, from which he has been running away from, as he pursues his search. Gezahegn will stop at nothing to find his son, even if that means exposing the town's people secrets and destroying their lives.
- In Ethiopia; there is a slow boiling of a feud between a wealthy Lord and a protester who feels he is mistreating his laborers. While the viewer gets to closely examine the culture, conversations, and lives of the locals who surround them.
- Town of Runners is a feature documentary about young runners from the Ethiopian rural town of Bekoji, home to the current Olympic and World Champions Tirunesh Dibaba and Kenenisa Bekele. The film follows three children as they move from school track to national competition and from childhood to adulthood.
- Framing The Other is about a tourist whose comfortable ideas about taking photos of exotic tribal people in Ethiopia are shaken by her encounter with a Mursi woman.
- A young Addis Ababa taxi driver gets caught up in the dark side of love, causing his taxi to be stolen. He finds himself stuck in a relationship with a prostitute, making him confront his past and discover what is the price of love.
- A wealthy businessman tries to buy land for a new factory, but develops a complicated relationship with the young woman who owns the land.
- Ethiopia, 1916: Gobeze is a timid, peace-loving, young man of 25; a brilliant student who dedicates his whole life to "Sem Ina Werq" (riddles with dual meaning). He is caught in bed with Aleme by Gonite, her husband and a wealthy old landlord. Following the old Ethiopian tradition, both men's clothes are bound together and the rivals set off on a long journey to the royal court to stand trial.
- Based on a true story of Zekarias Tibebu Mesfin. Major Tibebu Mesfin has two children including myself. He was working for the Dergue Regine in Ethiopian. During the time he was working, there was big ideological struggle and disagreement among his higher leaderships and administrations. Due to unforeseen situations, my father disappeared and his whereabouts was unknown. the result of his disappearance, his higher officials went after my mother and put her in jail. They torched her to confess. the hardship she was facing, my mother decided to get out to Dire Dawa. She escaped from Dire Dawa and went to Gonder to live with my father's relatives. As I grew older, my ambition to help my mother grew deeper. I left Gonder and went to Addis Ababa looking for work. I started working as a barber; and i was just about ready to help my mother. However, my mother was sick; and her older brother had to come from Sundan to take her to Tigray for a better treatment. My mother died and l left with no options, my last resort was migration with the help of my uncle. I planned a long trip to Israel. I started my journey from Metema travelled through Sudan; and then to Egypt. During my journey, i had faced many problems in the Sinai Desert and Egyptian prisons for two years. I tried everything to survive. during my stay in the Egyptian prison, i tried to get opportunity to immigrate to Canada. I managed to overcome all the problems i faced and travelled to Canada to start my new life.
- This experimental graphic memoir is set in an afrosurrealist VR dreamscape that explores the meaning of "home" and reclaims Ainslee's Ethiopian-American mixed-race identity. Ferenj redefines boundaries between fragmented memories and the digital imaginary.
- For over 35 years Yussuf Mume Saleh journeys at night to the outskirts of the walled city of Harar to bond with his beloved hyenas.
- A film that will span three continents and deal with the issue of illegal immigration to America.
- The story is set in Merkato, a sprawling market in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, considered to be Africa's largest open-air market, narrating the story of a girl, Selam, whose kindness and perseverance transforms her life for the better. Selam confronts the hardship life of her village but is determined to change the circumstances she and her family face, through athletics. The film depicts the young girl as a symbol and an inspiration for women and girls and that they, too, can be destined for greatness.
- "Yenegen Alewldem" (I will not bear tomorrow) causes a stir for depicting - through football - what may be Ethiopia's most bloody period in history."Ye Negen Alewdlem" - nearly two hours long - is based on a book written by veteran sports journalist Genene Mekuria about youths who used football as a distraction from the claustrophobic fear of the Red Terror. Local government cadres created much of that fear by their all-embracing surveillance of the population and the power of life and death or freedom and imprisonment they were given through the authority to denounce "anti-revolutionaries". The main character is a football coach played by Berhanu Degafe, a veteran entertainment journalist and personality. The coach uses his job as an escape from the danger of forcible recruitment into a local government approved security force. He trains his players on roads littered with dumped bodies of "anti-revolutionaries" and anti-government leaflets as he tries to juggle family disapproval with his desire to build a great football team at a dangerous time.
- Ballad of the Spirits tells a story of a man who is resistant to change. As a grander picture, Its a quiet love letter to a city, whose culture and identity is being degraded with every passing minute. As a personal one, its about a change in the dynamic of love and relationships and how that whole overall theme goes hand in hand with the city. Its also about existentialism, history and architecture.
- Jazz guitarist Michael is called by his mother and join her in Brussels, stoking his deep resentment toward European entitlement, evocative meditation on the internalized weight of colonialism.
- A snapshot in food sustainability by way of the Dorze tribe of Ethiopia.