Overview of articles
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When I Came to Your Door
A love letter retrieved from a demolished neighbourhood sparks this elegy for displaced people.
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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 dea
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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 you
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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, dreaming
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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 su
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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 she once was.Screen
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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 forest
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Lamb
A realistic children’s film with mature undertones. About a boy who grows up without parents in the harsh mountains of northern Ethiopia, but
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