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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Faya Dayi

    Between repression and labouring on the khat plantations, Ethiopians dream of a better life. Rich impressions in poetic black and white.
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  • The Last Tears of the Deceased

    Abba SAMUEL, an orthodox priest with a crippling fear of death, goes on a dreamlike journey of inquisition about 1994; the year of his supposed…
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  • Teza

    A sweltering Ethiopia. Landscapes from the beginning of time. A poor and hard land that is burdened by a modern and basically cruel ideology. A…
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  • Chigger Ale

    A small Hitler clone. A goat with a swastika. A neighbourhood bar somewhere in Addis Ababa.
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  • Adamt

    In Ethiopia music is of a different calibre and overcomes the deepest traumas, even deafness. Rhythmic drama.
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  • L’éclat furtif de l’ombre

    The horrors of war cast young fisherman Adisu adrift in vast Ethiopia. Forty years later, he is a taxi driver in a Northern European city,…
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  • New Voices in an Old Flower

    Westerners generally view Ethiopia as the mythical land of Rastafarians. However, the contemporary music scene is much richer than that, as this sultr
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  • Letters from Ethiopia

    It had not yet been done, a film about making films in Ethiopia. So IFFR had it made by the youngest talent we could find.
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  • New Eyes

    New eyes for seeing a new, sensual world. A young female filmmaker imagines what it is like to be a young girl, perhaps the one…
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  • Roaring Abyss

    Ethiopia has over eighty different cultures. With live recordings of music, this film is a voyage of discovery across mountains, deserts and forests t
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