An award-winning film written and directed by an Ethiopian tells the story of a young Ethiopian girl caught up in the rural tradition of abducting girls for marriage. The story is true and helped make ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1996, Hirut, a 14-year-old student in rural Ethiopia, runs carefree through the countryside after being commended on her school ...

As the Ethiopian holiday of Sigd was celebrated Wednesday, Ethiopian-Israeli filmmaker Esti Almo Wexler marked the date with screenings of her new 29-minute short titled “Bunchi,” about a 35-year-old ...

Addis Ababa — Haile Gerima's film "Teza" may only have come to the world's attention when it won Africa's highest prize in Ouagadougou on Mar. 7, but it has been a sensation in his native Ethiopia ...

Angelina Jolie joined production team of ‘Difret’ as executive producer If the director and producers of Ethiopian film Difret were not having enough difficulty in funding the film, the fact that they ...

Having successfully premiered “Lamb” in the director’s home city of Addis Ababa earlier this month, the filmmakers have turned their attention to their next important release: in France on September ...

Be that as it may, with all its weaknesses and frailties, maybe we can talk about the Ethiopian film industry because we should also begin somewhere, somehow and not be so negative or pessimist about ...

Zekarias Mesfin spent months making a movie about his dangerous illegal migration from Ethiopia -- and when he arrived at the film's premiere, he was in a coffin carried by six white-gloved ...

Zekarias Mesfin spent months making a movie about his dangerous illegal migration from Ethiopia -- and when he arrived at the film's premiere, he was in a coffin carried by six white-gloved ...