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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- In Ethiopia, two men are running to achieve their dreams.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Lambadina is a full feature film focusing on a journey of little boy whose story starts in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and ends in Los Angeles, CA.
- A wealthy businessman tries to buy land for a new factory, but develops a complicated relationship with the young woman who owns the land.
- 'I didn't believe it until I saw it'. A sign on a wall says this, as a hundred Eritrean refugees arrive in Endabaguna collection centre in the Tigray region in Ethiopia, after traveling in an airless truck for four days. Why do people run away? What happens before the infamous images we are shown in the West of refugees crossing the sea? An intense journey through four refugee camps for Eritreans in Ethiopia, amongst unaccompanied children, persecuted Kunamas, people who have been there for as long as 17 years. This journey will follow Dr Alganesh Fessah's work, and her commitment in securing refugee's rights and liberating kidnapped and tortured prisoners in the Sinai desert. Three protagonists: refugees; Ethiopia, a welcoming land; and Alganesh who, among despair, will tell us her hopes on the horizon.
- 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.
- Forged Ways combines elements of documentary, narrative, and experimental form to create an experience that brings the viewer in as an active participant as opposed to a passive witness. Photographed on location in Harlem, New York, and various locations throughout Ethiopia the film oscillates between the first person account of a film maker, the third person experience of a man navigating the streets of Harlem, and day to day life in the cities and villages of Ethiopia. By subduing any definitive story-line or 'message' the film is able to function as an audio visual meditation on the constructs surrounding African American culture while simultaneously highlighting some of the more subtle implications of maintaining an identity that spans hundreds of years, and thousands of miles.
- 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.
- 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.
- 95 years old athlete Wami Biratu runs his last marathon in Addis Ababa, while evoking the legendary Olympic champion Abebe Bikila, his best friend and rival.
- A young Ethiopian composer and drummer struggles with a traumatic experience from his childhood when a deaf spirit appears in his life and inspires him to channel his memories in a new direction.
- A sound journey accros the mountains, deserts and forests of Ethiopia and its cultural universe. Roaring Abyss will take you through an inedit collection of music recordings of unvaluable importance for the transmission and preservation of the African heritage.
- In 1990G.C, Selam, a young beautiful and intelligent woman was aboard to study In Cuba comes back to her mother land and lives in the same house a caring older couple that rented her a single room that was their own duty solider son`s, Abraham`s prior bed room. Selam is unhappy and doesn`t feel like she is back in the mother land as her field of study isn`t relevant back home; in which she drinks every night to forget her sadness. On a random day, Abraham calls his parents to tell them that he is coming back home after a long time. The news shocks his parents as they have to tell Selam to leave her home (Abraham`s bed room) when she least expect it. Yet, Selam convinces Abraham`s mother to give her a week until she find a place to stay. The socially isolated solder, Abraham (Who was on probation at the time) gets very upset with Selam as she comes home drunk every night. yet, eventually, the two fall in love with each other which makes Selam feels like she is really back home in her motherland.
- A Japanese mafia member is given the emotional job of killing his superior and taking him to the disposal area. Enroute, control is taken from him and events take a strange turn when he arrives at a spooky little town where some even stranger events take place. Here he spends a couple of days trying to Regain control.
- In the heart of a culture steeped in tradition and honor, "Criterion for Marriage" unfolds the poignant tale of Lijenesh, a young woman on the cusp of marital bliss. Her life takes an unexpected turn when her fiancé, swayed by societal norms and misconceptions, abandons her on the eve of their wedding. He is misled to believe that Lijenesh was violated by Bedilu, a man rumored to be obsessively infatuated with her. Crushed by this betrayal, Lijenesh grapples with the harsh realization that her worth, in the eyes of her beloved and her community, hinges on her virginity-a virtue she has been unfairly accused of losing. The film delves deep into Lijenesh's inner turmoil, capturing the raw emotion of a woman whose personal dignity is overshadowed by archaic values. Amidst this emotional chaos, Bedilu faces legal persecution for a crime he didn't commit. As the courtroom drama unfolds, it becomes evident that the key to his exoneration lies in Lijenesh's testimony. Torn between societal expectations and her own sense of justice, Lijenesh finds herself at a crossroads. Her decision promises to challenge entrenched beliefs and alter the lives of those around her irrevocably. "Criterion for Marriage" is a compelling exploration of love, honor, and the pursuit of truth. It's a narrative that resonates with the struggle of many women caught between personal integrity and societal norms. This film is not just a story of an individual's fight for justice; it is a poignant commentary on the values that define and sometimes confine human relationships.
- Family's life turned upside down after welcoming an uncle when he sexually assaults the young daughter. It evolves around how society's perception and pressure has divided the family apart in bringing the man forward to the authorities.
- "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.
- A film that will span three continents and deal with the issue of illegal immigration to America.
- One day, Tokola's dog Leman disappeared. Tokola is a closed friend of Yohannes Feleke and Miguel Llanso, so that's why the filmmakers reflected on the value of a dog and the great amount of street dogs in Addis Ababa, trying to survive among the people. How are these dogs related to the inhabitants of the city? People love or hate them? Could be established a parallelism between the life of the dogs and the life of the people? Finally this reflection would consider the general perception of Ethiopia from the West and would play experimentally with the western prejudices to display an ironic film with certain doses of black humor. Thus Yohannes Feleke and Miguel Llanso went to the streets of Addis Ababa.
- Happy families gets the hardships and ups and downs of the family with the illness of their beloved young girl.
- In Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley, a young man comes of age in a harsh time.
- A family drama set in Addis, revolves around a father struggling to save his only daughter from a heart problem that can not be treated locally
- A lot can happen on the long way to the market in the Ethiopian countryside. A father and his son follow all the people's good advice... and come back to their senses.
- A little baby girl is left by her parents in a parking lot in Addis Abeba and we don't know why. The young girl grows up with the dream of reuniting with her parents who left her because they couldn't support her.
- A widowed father struggles to save his daughter when she becomes a victim of sexual assault.
- Nishan is a beautiful young business executive who dreams of leaving the country to seek her fortune elsewhere. She involves her father in her project. The latter mortgaged his house to allow his daughter to emigrate. But he failed because he was absent when the last documents to complete the mortgage application were required. It eventually results in drama for the whole family...
- 'Two Zions' focuses on the Zions of Jerusalem, Israel and Axum, Ethiopia. It describes the relationship between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba that has connected two peoples and cultures through their religious observances from approximately 950 BC till today.