Ethiopia Movies

Decades in the making, Haile Gerima's sweeping survey of Italy's brutal colonial legacy in Ethiopia is a monumental reckoning with suppressed...

Rohnan Master Class

Both are Ethiopians but from different ethnic groups. They love each other very much. They agree that they cannot live without each other. A bitter...

Ye Fiker Katena Comedy Theater

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

Itzhak is an Ethiopian-Jewish boy who dreams of becoming the future Spike Lee of Israel. Generational clashes though incite a surprising chain of...

35 Cows and a Kalashnikov is a joyously made triptych about warrior-farmers, colorful dandies and voodoo wrestlers in Ethiopia, Brazzaville and...

Film on the rock hewn churches of Lalibela

A film by Yayeshwerk Endalemaw

A young Ethiopian composer deals with a traumatic childhood experience when a deaf spirit inspires him to channel his memories in a new direction.

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....

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...

"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...

A young Ethiopian composer and drummer struggles with a traumatic experience from his childhood when a deaf spirit appears in his life and inspires...

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...

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

A shepherd sings some traditional songs of the Hamers, a nomadic ethnic group of southern Ethiopia.

By Comedian Yasin Redu