Spotlight: Ethiopian Movies at New African Film Festival in MarylandThree new Ethiopian films: Fig Tree, Found in a Dream and Fortuna will be screened at the 2019 New African Film Festival at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland. Their relationship develops in secret until the day Kabir mysteriously disappears following a police raid.”Helen Kassa’s Ethio-Australian film Found in a Dream is also slated to screen at the 2019 New African Film Festival. Fig Tree is directed by Ethiopian-Israeli filmmaker and writer Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian. “Sixteen-year-old Mina (newcomer Betalehem Asmamawe) lives with her brother and grandmother in a humble house with newsprint for wallpaper,” notes the film summary. Fig Tree offers a rare opportunity to better understand the impact of civil war on the lives of ordinary people — and it pulls no punches.”—Learn more about the New African Film Festival at AFI Silver: https://silver.afi.com.

Source: Ethiopian News March 02, 2019 20:37 UTC