An intimate look inside the immigrant community in Portland, Maine, as told by Nyamuon Nguany Machar who arrived as refugee in 1995 and David Zwalita Mota who came as an asylum seeker in 2019.
The filmmaker envisions what life would have been like if her parents never left their country of origin. The haunting imagery and disjointed narration (in Amharic, left un-translated) create a portrait of the place her mother and father called home.
A short film documenting Ethiopian musician Hailu Mergia's life as the leader of the Walias Band in the 1970, his immigration to the United States and his subsequent re-emergence as a performer in 2014.
Sara from Zurich was circumcised as a little girl in Ethiopia. This event severely traumatized her. To find her inner peace, Sara decides to look for her circumciser.
Negotiating Amnesia is an essay film based on research conducted at the Alinari Archive and the National Library in Florence. It focuses on the Ethiopian War of 1935-36 and the legacy of the fascist, imperial drive in Italy. Through interviews, archival images and the analysis of high-school textbooks employed in Italy since 1946, the film shifts through different historical and personal anecdotes, modes and technologies of representation.
Au sud de l’Éthiopie, la vallée du Rift abrite l’une des plus étonnantes énigmes du continent africain. Avec leur calotte arrondie, une dizaine de milliers de stèles à forme phallique parsèment les hauts plateaux montagneux du Sidamo et du pays Gedeo, sur un territoire de 10 000 kilomètres carrés. Découverts il y a moins d’un siècle par une poignée d’explorateurs, ces gigantesques mégalithes ont été peu étudiés, à la différence des stèles anthropomorphes, dont les recherches ont révélé le caractère funéraire. Une équipe de scientifiques dirigée par Roger Joussaume, spécialiste français du mégalithisme, mène une importante campagne de fouilles sur les nombreux sites archéologiques de la région. Ils tentent de dater et de comprendre cet exceptionnel patrimoine, abandonné en l’état par une civilisation encore méconnue.
En juin 2018, fraîchement élu, le Premier ministre éthiopien Abiy Ahmed annonce accepter l'accord frontalier signé avec l'Érythrée en 2000. Cette décision historique met un terme à deux décennies d'hostilités. Une décision saluée par la communauté internationale et couronnée cette année par le prix Nobel de la paix.
Ethiopia's first feature-length film was directed, written and produced by the local businessman Ilala Ibsa. It is about a woman that succumbs to prostitution. It was not popular with audiences and did not make its money back.
35 Cows and a Kalashnikov is a joyously made triptych about warrior-farmers, colorful dandies and voodoo wrestlers in Ethiopia, Brazzaville and Kinshasa. It paints a loving and attentive portrait of African pride and beauty.
Set against the Ethiopian abandoned children crisis, two orphan brothers are faced with the reality of never being adopted. Inspired by a true story.
A documentary survey of Ethiopia that samples the fascinating people and places spanning one of the most diverse nations in Africa.
Thursday 27th of October 2016 – Teatro Espace, Turin. Mulatu Astatke is a musician, composer, arranger and Ethiopia’s cultural ambassador. He’s known as the godfather of ethiojazz, a unique blend of jazz, traditional Ethiopian music, latin, caribbean reggae and afrofunk. Born in 1943 in Jimma, Mulatu studied music not only in Ethiopia but also in UK and USA. In 2005 he contributed to the soundtrack of Jim Jarmusch’s film “Broken Flowers”, reaching a new public worldwide.
Running Movie is a documentary film that focuses on Israeli long-distance runner Ayele Seteng (a.k.a. Haile Satayin), the oldest marathon runner to compete in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and his efforts to participate in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Satayin has been a long-distance runner since he was a young boy in Ethiopia, but he only became a marathon runner after immigrating to Israel in the early 1990s. Now, at the age of 55, he keeps on running. We follow him as he practices in Ethiopia, far from his wife and eight children, and witness his moments of victory and defeat, as he competes in marathons around the world—from Berlin, Germany, to Tiberias, Israel.
"A Walk to Beautiful" tells the story of five women in Ethiopia suffering from devastating childbirth injuries. Rejected by their husbands and ostracized by their communities, these women are left to spend the rest of their lives in loneliness and shame. The trials they endure and their attempts to rebuild their lives tell a universal story of hope, courage, and transformation.
Haile Gerima and Ryszard Kapuscinski travel around Ethiopia talking to people about their current situations and what needs to be done for a prosperous country.
The armies of Fascist Italy conquered Addis Ababa, capital of Abyssinia, in May 1936, thus culminating the African colonial adventure of the ruthless dictator Benito Mussolini, by then lord of Libya, Eritrea and Somalia; a bloody and tragic story told through the naive drawings of Pietro Dall'Igna, an Italian schoolboy born in 1925.
In this meditative film the everyday lives of poor Ethiopian peasants are shown using documentary as well as storytelling techniques, with its drama arising out of the timeless yet persistent issues of their lives.
Au début des années 70, Anberber quitte son village de Minzero, en Éthiopie, pour suivre des études de médecine en Allemagne de l’Est. Il n’est plus du tout le même lorsqu’il revient dans son pays en 1990, alors confronté aux ultimes soubresauts de la sanglante dictature du colonel Mengistu.