Ethiopia Movies

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

A dream-like exploration of the interconnected lives of two women and two children, celebrating the profound moments of love, loss, and resilience...

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

A film by Yayeshwerk Endalemaw

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 wealthy businessman is enamoured by a beautiful woman. But he wants her to like him for who he is on the inside and not his wealth so he attempts...

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.

Roman Befikadu plays an intellectual woman (Elleni) who is educated abroad and comes back to Ethiopia to run her father’s leather company....

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

A young Ethiopian composer deals with a traumatic childhood experience when a deaf spirit inspires him to channel his memories in a new direction.

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...

የ ሃና ፍቃዱ ፊልም (A Film by hanna Fikadu) Prepared and Presented By Kiru Multimedia

In Ethiopia’s labyrinthine capital, a recluse sits translating Greek and Roman myths on an ancient laptop as cosmic chaos presses in on him. A...

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

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

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....

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...

Documentary on the Ethiopian orphanage ‘Toukoul’, filmed in Addis Ababa in December 2003