Difret

Difret 2014

6.20

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.

2014

Crumbs

Crumbs 2015

5.70

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

2015

Made in Ethiopia

Made in Ethiopia 2024

10.00

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.

2024

Lamb

Lamb 2015

7.00

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.

2015

Doka

Doka 2023

1

Fire does not choose Race.

2023

Teza

Teza 2008

7.60

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.

2008

Running Against the Wind

Running Against the Wind 2023

6.20

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

2023

Keye Card

Keye Card 2024

1

Afilm by Yeabsira Docho

2024

Meba

Meba 2015

1

The film takes the audience inside the head of a schizophrenic patient (Meba) in a mental hospital along with a number of characters with a variety of mental disorders.

2015

Triangle: Going to America

Triangle: Going to America 2013

5.00

Kaleab and Jemal are two who are willing to endure any travail to reach America and what they deem as a promise of a better life, but is it? Along the way Kaleab meets Winta, who is from neighboring Eritrea and on a similar journey as Kaleab. Kaleab and Winta fall in love with each other as the group of Ethiopians and Eritreans travel an arduous and illegal path from East Africa through Libya, Italy, Mexico and finally to America, but their love for each other is tested thoroughly as the group meets up with violence, sickness and, ultimately, tragedy.

2013

The Seducer

The Seducer 2013

1

The story of an outsider seducing Ethiopian women.

2013

The Road to Eilat

The Road to Eilat 1994

5.80

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

1994

Wawago

Wawago 2024

1

Wawago new theater

2024

Harvest: 3,000 Years

Harvest: 3,000 Years 1975

6.70

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.

1975

Ladies' Threshold

Ladies' Threshold 1995

6.50

(Suheir Fadel) an Obstetrics and Gynecology Doctor is unable to have kids from her Husband (Hazem Kharbash) after many years of marriage. Her husband Hazem goes for some medical tests to find that he is incapable of procreation and his wife is perfectly healthy, and he lies to her to maintain their marital life.

1995

Yewendoch Guday 2

Yewendoch Guday 2 2013

6.70

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.

2013

Tireta

Tireta 2020

1

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]

2020