Алдартай Хаанаас Ethiopia

When an Ethiopian boy moves in with distant relatives he takes his pet sheep with him but the upcoming holidays spell danger for his beloved friend.

Three hours outside of Addis Ababa, a bright 14-year-old girl is on her way home from school when men on horses swoop in and kidnap her. The brave Hirut grabs a rifle and tries to escape, but ends up shooting her would-be husband. In her village the practice of abduction into marriage is common and one of Ethiopia’s oldest traditions. Meaza Ashenafi, an empowered and tenacious young lawyer, arrives from the city to represent Hirut and argue that she acted in self defense. Meaza boldly embarks on a collision course between enforcing civil authority and abiding by customary law, risking the ongoing work of her women’s legal aid practice to save Hirut’s life.

Made in Ethiopia examines China’s increasing impact on Africa through the story of charismatic businesswoman Motto, who is tasked with expanding the biggest Chinese industrial zone in Ethiopia.

In the quiet villa, a girl cares for her ailing father, a man confronting the weight of his past as his body fails him. As their days blur between duty, resentment, and fleeting tenderness, Albatross unravels a delicate battle between a daughter’s sacrifice and a father’s regrets, asking when is it time to let go?

A New Theatre in Town

The Ethiopian intellectual Anberber returns to his native country during the repressive totalitarian regime of Haile Mariam Mengistu and the recognition of his own displacement and powerlessness at the dissolution of his people's humanity and social values. After several years spent studying medicine in Germany, he finds the country of his youth replaced by turmoil. His dream of using his craft to improve the health of Ethiopians is squashed by a military junta that uses scientists for its own political ends. Seeking the comfort of his countryside home, Anberber finds no refuge from violence. The solace that the memories of his youth provide is quickly replaced by the competing forces of military and rebelling factions. Anberber needs to decide whether he wants to bear the strain or piece together a life from the fragments that lie around him.

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.

In 1969, a group of Egyptian frogmen target and destroy two Israeli vessels in the port of Eilat during the War of Attrition.

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.

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

(Ameen) The merchant who sees many nightmares in his dream about a young man who accepts him to kill him, which causes him to feel fear for what he owns, and goes to seek advice from a psychiatrist, and one day Ameen is surprised by the young man who always appears in all his nightmares as he applies to a job with him, and discovers Amine that this young man loves (Samia) Amin's daughter, which causes him to address this relationship, refusing to associate with her.

A mild-mannered man journeys across a post-apocalyptic landscape in search of answers regarding a derelict spaceship hovering in the sky.

A film By Yebayush Lij (Sami)

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.

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

Zerihun sleeps with Mahlet, the daughter of the owner of the warehouse Gashe was renting for his carpentry business. Mahlet ends up getting pregnant and her father (Mekonen Leake's character) furious at what Zerihun had done, locks up the warehouse, and refuses to let anyone inside.

The film follows the fate of two boys, one of whom hopes to become an Olympic runner and the other a photographer.

A New comedy theatre Presented by Hamlet Multimedia

Starring Admasu Kebede as Aimro, and Rekik Teshome as Helina, the title characters in the film, the movie focuses on the young carpenter Aimro who has his heart broken by his long time girlfriend Emmy that left him for another man that promised to take her to America. Aimro decides that there are no women in town that are worth his love and respect. Aimro, heartbroken and sick with envy is bedridden with his overwhelming emotions, when his co-workers, who are also his best friends, decide to form a group called Yewendoch Guday (translated Guy's Affairs) in order to avenge all men that have been done wrong by women.

Sew Le Sew

1950’s local shop owner, Yemeni citizen Melike has been forced to leave Dessie. His love afire with the local chiefs daughter, become the Couse for his death. On the last moment, his young helper Tame ru has acquired a watch from the dead body. After decades Tameru learns the watch might worth a lot of money and had been in search for years. The old-fashioned Tameru refused to exchange or to give up his childhood memory. But this mild-manner will ruin his and his family peaceful life. Tamerus only son Yosef makes a desperate verdict in order to get pure justice, for what he couldn’t get legally. [filmoch]