Ethiopian actress Kidist Siyum Beza is definitely going places with her career as an actress. The film, written and directed by Franco-Swiss director and photographer Germinal Roaux, stars celebrated Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, French actor Patrick D’Assumçao and a young Ethiopian actor, Assefa Zerihun Gudeta. Fortuna, the protagonist of the film played by Kidist, a 14-year-old Ethiopian girl, who has had no news of her parents since arriving in Lampedusa, Italy. Kidist was chosen for the role during a casting made in Addis Ababa 2016 when the director Germinal Roaux and Ruth Waldburger went there. And seeing her, I knew right away that she was the right person to play Fortuna,” Germinal said.

Source: Ethiopian News September 03, 2018 20:03 UTC