Ethiopia Movies

A Film by Duguma Tsehay

A wealthy businessman tries to buy land for a new factory, but develops a complicated relationship with the young woman (Adey) who owns the land.

A Film By Biniam John Otto

Hayelom from the Tigray region in Ethiopia is deeply in love with Lielt from Ethiopia’s Amhara region. When Tigrai militants invade the Amhara...

In rural Ethiopia the staff of a health centre are fighting maternal mortality. They tirelessly appeal to women to give birth in the clinic. But...

A Film By kidist Yilma

If you don't face it, you won't win.

A love story about a deeply connected couple, Meron and Abraham.

At a time of round-the-clock curfews, government surveillance and streets littered with the bodies of "anti-revolutionaries," Adugna struggles to...

Jonathan Dimbleby’s landmark 1973 documentary “The Unknown Famine” stands as a pivotal moment in Ethiopian history—a...

A Dergue regime commander puts pressure on a father and coerces him to give him his daughter's hand in marriage. The daughter reluctantly...

A cyclical journey through four political eras that have shaped Ethiopia's capital.

New Comedy Theater

A film by Samuel Teshager

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

A love triangle stretching from Bahir Dahr to Las Vegas. Theodros Teshome's film surpassed his own Kezkaza Welafen as Ethiopia's highest grossing...

A theater by Dagmawi Alemlewerk Feyisa

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

A film by Awol Endiris (Zeyin)

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