Ethiopia Movies

Gaga, a one-eyed, no-tongue homicidal manace with a mysterious past goes on a killing spree.

A film by Yayeshwerk Endalemaw

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 theater by Dagmawi Alemlewerk Feyisa

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

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

Membre, a university graduate, is enjoying a lavish party hosted by her boyfriend when a near accident shakes her so deeply that she suddenly...

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

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

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.

Ethiopia's first feature-length film was directed, written and produced by the local businessman Ilala Ibsa. It is about a woman that succumbs to...

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)...

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

A drama that follows the tragic downward spiral of a young man battling severe substance abuse.

A Film By Elias Workneh

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...

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

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