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1) Difret
Language
Amharic
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Based on the true story of a young Ethiopian girl and a tenacious lawyer embroiled in a life-or-death clash bwtween cultural traditions and their country's advancement of equal rights. When 14-year-old Hirut is abducted in her rural village's tradition of kidnapping women for marriage, she fights back, accidentally killing her captor and intended husband. Local law demands a death sentence for Hirut, but Meaza, a tough and passionate lawyer from a...
2) Lamb
Language
Amharic
Description
This remarkable feature debut tells the story of young Ephraim, a half-Jewish, Ethiopian boy who is sent by his father to live among distant relatives after his mother's death. Ephraim uses his cooking skills to carve out a place among his cousins, but when his uncle decides that his beloved sheep must be sacrificed for the next religious feast, he will do anything to save the animal and return home. Drawing amazing performances from his cast of professional...
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Language
Amharic
Description
Despite its rich legacy of language and culture, Ethiopia, Africa's oldest independent nation, remains essentially hidden to the world! Through offering use tools and materials to teach Amharic (Ethiopia's language), culture and traditions; they will become fresh and vital for learners of all ages and walks of life!
It is a road to reconnect you or your children with your naïve culture, or a family who has risen as adopted Ethiopian children as...
7) Lamb
Author
Language
Amharic
Description
Yared Zeleke's remarkable feature debut tells the story of young Ephraim, a half-Jewish, Ethiopian boy who is sent by his father to his beloved sheep must be sacrificed for the next religious feast, he will do anything to save the animal and return home.
15) Crumbs
Language
Amharic
Description
Amidst the background of spectacular post-apocalyptic Ethiopian landscapes, emerges a strange-looking scrap collector, Gagano. Alternately gripped by daydreams and constant fears, the diminutive Gagano has had enough of collecting the priceless crumbs of decayed civilization, including the most valuable: merchandise from Michael Jackson and Michael Jordan. When a spaceship that has been hovering high in the sky for years starts showing signs of activity,...
18) Faya dayi
Series
Criterion collection volume 1141
Language
Amharic
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Description
A sublime work of personal vision, the debut feature by the Mexican Ethiopian filmmaker Jessica Beshir is a hypnotic documentary immersion in the world of Ethiopia₂s Oromo community, a place where one commodity khat, a euphoria-inducing plant once prized for its supposedly mystical properties holds sway over the rituals and rhythms of everyday life. As if under the influence of the drug itself, Faya Dayi unfurls as intoxicating, trance state cinema,...
19) Carry me
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Series
Language
Amharic
Description
Explores ways that babies are carried in various countries of the world.
20) Lamb
Language
Amharic
Description
It tells the story of young Ephraim, a half-Jewish, Ethiopian boy who is sent by his father to live among distant relatives after his mother's death. Ephraim uses his cooking skills to carve out a place among his cousins, but when his uncle decides that his beloved sheep must be sacrificed for the next religious feast, he hatches a plan to save the animal and return home.
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