Ethiopia Movies

A documentary film about sister-ancestors, speech acts and resistance, populated by women who write and re-write history and culture in Ethiopia.

Based on a true story, this film chronicles the life of Major Tibebu Mesfin, who worked for the Dergue Regime in Ethiopia. This unpredictable...

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...

A film showing the burden borne by women because of inadequate water supplies and their relief after the installation of a clean water source in a...

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....

About the Gondar Castle, locally known as the castle of Emperor Fassil

"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...

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...

Poverty is preferable with love than having wealth with quarrel

Set in the intensely feudal society of 1960s Ethiopia, Aster is the story of a young rural girl who came to the capital city of Ethiopia for medical...

Film about the Ethiopian famine of I984/85 and the measures taken to combat it

On the eve of the Second World War about one hundred fifty Italians aircrafts bombarded the northern part of Ethiopia with poisonous gas. On March...

Dancing Grass captures the communal harvesting of teff among Tigreans of Northern Ethiopia. Teff, an ancient indigenous grain, is central to the...

A peek at thousands of years of traditional shepherd culture among some indigenous people in Ethiopia, where in order to get married, young men must...

Papyrellas, or papyrus boats, are often represented on the terracottas, paintings and mosaics of ancient Egypt. The papyrus plant, however,...

New Standup Comedy Show