Ethiopia Movies

A family drama

About the Gondar Castle, locally known as the castle of Emperor Fassil

Film on the rock hewn churches of Lalibela

Film on the reconstruction of the country during the Derg administration

A film showing the burden borne by women because of inadequate water supplies and their relief after the installation of a clean water source in a vil...

The history of art in Ethiopia. The film emphasizes the styles, materials, etc. ofpaintings on walls and roofs of ancient churche

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 division...

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

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.

Duka is now a mother with a two-year-old daughter and a six-month-old baby boy. Her life is dominated by caring for them and her husband, Sago. Althou...

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 sacrif...

Duka, a young unmarried Hamar girl learns what awaits her in life from the older women of her tribe. Their often humorous conversations range from tee...

The Surmas live in the Kibish River Valley, in southern Ethiopia, where modern man was born 195,000 years ago. They hold up the mirror to us of a past...

An indictment of the atrocities and conflict caused by Ethiopia's Dergue Regime.

If you want your child not to fall, you should be careful

Set in the Sidist Kilo campus of Addis Ababa University, Kezkaza Welafen directly addresses the social tensions of everyday life for Ethiopian univers...

Tatek Tadesse's now classic 2003 "Gudifecha", had a deeper exploration of social issues, targeting at the sinister and corrosive effects of marital in...