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.

Roman Befikadu plays an intellectual woman (Elleni) who is educated abroad and comes back to Ethiopia to run her father’s leather company....

Performed by Girum Zenebe

Bilatena tells us the story of Abi, a young boy who is representative of million of children in Africa who do not attend school and work to sustain...

Hackers cyber attack the Ethiopian power grid and the Information Network Security Administration rushes to stop them.

From the music of Peruvian composer Pauchi Sasaki, Mexican-Ethiopian filmmaker Jessica Beshir crafts a story of a spectral mother’s disembodied...

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A meditation on culture, society, and self-exploration set against a backdrop of a metropolitan city experiencing a renaissance.

Documentary on the Ethiopian orphanage ‘Toukoul’, filmed in Addis Ababa in December 2003

In Ethiopia’s labyrinthine capital, a recluse sits translating Greek and Roman myths on an ancient laptop as cosmic chaos presses in on him. A...

A dream-like exploration of the interconnected lives of two women and two children, celebrating the profound moments of love, loss, and resilience...

A movie by Yebeltal Terefe Produced by Tigist Yirgal Film Production

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...

This tells the story of Duka and her young friend Gardi, as they prepare to marry men they have never met. For Hamar girls, marriage means huge...

Nebsey, meaning ‘my body’ in Tigrigna, is a short-animated film revealing the story of women who faced sexual and gender based violence...

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

By Comedian Yasin Redu

The history of art in Ethiopia. The film emphasizes the styles, materials, etc. ofpaintings on walls and roofs of ancient churche

To escape crushing loneliness, Linda (23) throws herself into a desperate game of self-sufficiency and love, but when she loses, she must confront...