Ethiopia Movies

A Film By Alazar Salelegn

New Theater

Zema Hiwot, ("Musical Life") is a two hour romantic tragedy based on the story of a young Ethiopian woman who faces challenge after challenge despite...

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

An original horror story about King Nahusenay, an authoritarian Ethiopian ruler obsessed with power, wields the occult to bend fate and command fear.

This is the second part of a four parts series of documentaries on Ethiopia made by the German television journalist Klaus Stephan in the mid 60ies.

The plot of the Ethiopian film Semayawi Feres (Blue Horse) centers on a man's ambitious quest to harness the potential of the Blue Nile (Abay River)...

SHEPHERD’S CALLING follows an Ethiopian shepherd’s remarkable journey from the rugged caves of Ethiopia to Hollywood, overcoming...

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

Ye Fiker Katena Comedy Theater

Tilahun, a politically apathetic ambulance driver collects bodies from the streets of Ethiopia's capital during a mass killing.

A film by Awol Endiris (Zeyin)

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...

A Film By Elias Workneh

Bilatena tells us the story of Abi, a young boy who is representative of million of children in Africa who do not attend school and work to sustain...

From the music of Peruvian composer Pauchi Sasaki, Mexican-Ethiopian filmmaker Jessica Beshir crafts a story of a spectral mother’s disembodied...

Performed by Girum Zenebe

The three protagonists play, eat and argue together. In this, at least, they are no different from other boys their age. But they are different in...