Ethiopia Movies

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

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...

A man who's name invokes fear and terror throughout his whole village because of the ruthless way he deals with his enemies sets his sights on an...

A social parable without words about how different people earn money. The heroine who sells her crops on the street, all day long watches sadly as...

Film on the rock hewn churches of Lalibela

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...

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...

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

The first part of the film focuses on life in the homestead of Baldambe, a Hamar elder, who comments on the intricacies of herding goats, the...

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

Papyrellas, or papyrus boats, are often represented on the terracottas, paintings and mosaics of ancient Egypt. The papyrus plant, however,...

Set during the time of the Red Terror war in 1970's in Ethiopia, the country's political tyranny has created huge population of refugees searching...

When Phil discovers that he wasn't an Orphan at adoption, he risks everything - including his life, to uncover the tortuous corruption between his...

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

On the eve of the Second World War about one hundred fifty Italians aircrafts bombarded the northern part of Ethiopia with poisonous gas. On March...

A documentary film about sister-ancestors, speech acts and resistance, populated by women who write and re-write history and culture in Ethiopia.

Two farmers win the lottery and come to the capital Addis Ababa from their rural home only to come across unforeseen obstacles in an unfamiliar and...