title: Milenu

status: Released

overview: Milenu is based on very popular Eritrean story about a girl whose parents wanted to marry her to her own brother. Being in love with another young man, she refuses her parents' decision and flees the village to take refuge up in an oak tree.

title: Milenu

job: Director

department: Directing

type: Crew

job: Writer

department: Writing

original_title: Milenu

original_language: ti


title: Revival

overview: Based on a true story, which tells a story of freeing prisoners from a maximum-security prison in Asmara, and the events that followed after.

title: Revival

job: Director of Photography

department: Camera

job: Makeup Artist

department: Costume & Make-Up

job: Original Music Composer

department: Sound

job: Editor

department: Editing

job: Sound Editor

job: Producer

department: Production

original_title: ዳግማይ ሂወት

title: Dagmay hiwet

country: ER


title: The Child

type: Poster

overview: Ety Hitsan follows a man whose family life is shaken to its core when his maid falls pregnant and claims that the child is his. His wife, son and friends are all pulled into his personal maelstrom as he not only faces the possibility of losing all he has, but also coming to harm at the hands of a man who stalks him.

title: The Child

original_title: አቲ ህጻን

title: Ety Hitsan


title: Debbas, the Ghost

The Legendary Debbas, the Ghost.mp4

site: YouTube

type: Trailer

overview: A 300 years old Ghost, Debbas, believed to be a demon in the Eritrean Highlands, haunts a young artist, Aman, to write the truth about a feudal conspiracy that led to his murder.

title: Debbas, the Ghost

character: Aman

type: Cast

character: Aster

character: Debbas

job: Costume Design

job: Music

original_title: ደባስ

title: Debbas


title: Life is Fare

type: Backdrop

name: 2018 Indie Memphis Film Festival - LIFE IS FARE

overview: This beautiful film about the immigrant experience is a San Francisco film about Eritrea. Sephora Woldu plays "Sephora" who, like the director, is an architecture student but also a filmmaker. She is pitching to her traditional mother a film she wants to make about a man who fled their home country and ended up in San Francisco. As a recently arrived immigrant, he is terribly homesick for his native Eritrea, but will not admit it due to unease towards speaking ill of the country; and more consciously in hesitance of admitting hard truths about his culture and himself. "It’s colorful and visually whimsical in a way that can only be described as if the Wizard of Oz went to Africa," said Woldu.

title: Life is Fare

character: Haile Birra

character: Mother

character: Self

job: Executive Producer

job: Camera Operator

original_title: Life is Fare

production_countries: US ER


title: Gunpowder 77

overview: Kidana, a young Eritrean man is arrested while contemplating to join the Eritrean People's Liberation Front. He is accused of being a member. He is imprisoned, tortured, and interrogated by the Ethiopian soldiers. Kidana is being rescued by some EPLF freedom fighters posing as Ethiopian soldiers.

title: Gunpowder 77

character: Kidana

original_title: ባሩድ

title: Barud 77


title: Winta

overview: The first feature film in the Tigrigna language with English subtitle. Shot in America, Winta is the story of a young woman who comes to America from Eritrea in pursuit of her dreams and higher education. Written and directed by Mesfin Sinke.

title: Winta

character: Winta

job: Cinematography

department: Crew

original_title: Winta

production_countries: ER US


title: Hager Alatni

overview: A young Boy and a Girl go on a nationwide adventure to experience the wonderful landscapes, animals and people of Eritrea.

title: Hager Alatni

character: Boy

character: Girl

original_title: ሃገር ኣላትኒ


title: Semret

overview: Semret a single mom works at a local Zurich hospital, she does everything to ensure a better life for her daughter Joe. When Semret was wrongfully accused at the hospital she stand up for her rights, so as not to lose everything she loves.

title: Semret

title: Semret

overview: Semret lebt mit ihrer Tochter Joe in einer kleinen Wohnung in Zürich. Seit sie vor vielen Jahren aus Eritrea geflüchtet ist, versucht die junge Mutter ihrer vierzehnjährigen Tochter ein gutes Leben in der Schweiz zu ermöglichen

title: Semret

overview: Semret duce o viață modestă și izolată în Zurich, cu fiica ei adolescentă, Joe. Ea lucrează într-un spital și s-a înscris într-un program de formare a moașelor. Când Joe începe să-i pună întrebări despre propriile origini, din Eritreea, Semret nu mai poate să-și reprime trecutul și trebuie să-și înfrunte traumele. Cu ajutorul lui Yemane, o nouă angajată a spitalului, tot din Eritreea, ea reușește în sfârșit să înfrunte amintirile tragice ale evadării sale.

title: Semret

overview: Semret wiedzie skromne i odizolowane życie w Zurychu ze swoją nastoletnią córką Joe. Pracuje w szpitalu i stara się o udział w programie szkoleniowym dla położnych. Sytuacja sprawia jednak, że Semret musi stawić czoła traumie i swojej przeszłości.

title: Semret

overview: Svobodná matka Semret pracuje v místní curyšské nemocnici a dělá vše pro to, aby své dceři Joe zajistila lepší život. Když je Semret v nemocnici neprávem obviněna, postaví se za svá práva, aby nepřišla o vše, co má ráda.

title: Semret

overview: Semret est une mère célibataire érythréenne qui travaille dans un hôpital de Zurich et souhaite devenir sage-femme. Elle fait tout pour assurer une vie meilleure à sa fille adolescente, Joe. Lorsque Joe commence à vouloir en savoir plus sur ses origines, Semret refuse d'abord d'affronter son passé.

title: Semret

title: 塞姆雷

title: Semret

overview: Semret vive in una modesta pensione a Zurigo con la sua giovane figlia Joe. Lavora all'ospedale, dove sta studiando come ostetrica. Quando sua figlia la interroga sulle sue origini e il suo passato in Eritrea, Semret è costretta ad affrontare i traumi che l'hanno segnata e a superare i tragici ricordi legati al suo esilio.

title: Semret

overview: Semret je eritrejska priseljenka, ki se je dobro ustalila v Zurichu. Z najstniško hčerko Joe, ki obiskuje srednjo šolo, živita preprosto, umirjeno, a tudi izolirano življenje. Semret dela v porodnišnici in se je tam tudi prijavila na tečaj za babico. Joe, ki je že dovolj odrasla, začne mamo spraševati o svojih koreninah, o čemer Semret vztrajno molči in potiska svojo travmatično izkušnjo v podzavest. V njeno življenje nenadoma vstopi Yemane, prav tako eritrejski priseljenec, ki se je zaposlil v porodnišnici. Z njim ob strani se Semret končno sooči s travmatičnim spominom na svojo odisejado iz Eritreje v Evropo …

character: Semret

character: Yemane Tesfai

character: Joe Dawit

character: Doris Stauffer

character: Tesheme Tesfai

character: Hanna Bleuler

character: Vanessa Bleuler

character: Firat Kara

character: Julie Probst

character: Isabell

character: Mariam Abraha

character: Daniel

character: Vera Gilardi

character: Inge Klass

character: Jeanne Heller

character: Patrick Schiller

job: Production Design

department: Art

job: Makeup Designer

job: Sound

job: Casting

job: First Assistant Director

job: Production Manager

job: Location Manager

original_title: Semret


title: Mrcha

overview: This is an award-winning Eritrean short film.

title: Mrcha

character: Saliem

character: Biniam

job: Director

original_title: Mrcha


title: Aliens in Eritea

status: InProduction

overview: Set in the early 1990’s of San Jose and Asmara, a family prepares to leave the US for Eritrea during the formative years of their country’s newly won independence. Everyone is an alien in navigating a free Eritrea— the diaspora moving back home, the citizens who never left, and the aliens from outer space who picked a strange and beautiful time to make contact.

title: Aliens in Eritea

original_title: Aliens in Eritea


title: Zegedam

title: Zegedam

overview: Een film uit Eritrea

original_title: Zegedam


title: Nebsei

overview: Nebsey, meaning ‘my body’ in Tigrigna, is a short-animated film revealing the story of women who faced sexual and gender based violence during the war in Tigray.

title: Nebsei

overview: Esta é a história de mulheres que sofreram violência sexual e de gênero durante a guerra na região do Tigré, na Etiópia. “Nebsei” significa “meu corpo” em amárico.

title: Nebsei

title: Nebsei

original_title: Nebsei


title: Because I Love You

overview: Nebay loves his girlfriend and that is why he wants to break up with her

title: Because I Love You

original_title: ስለ ዘፍቅረኪ


title: Aklasia

AKLASIA

type: Featurette

overview: Abnet forces Aklasia into marriage to settle her debt.

title: Aklasia

character: Aklasia

character: Mesfin

character: Zerubabel

character: Abnet

character: Bahgu

character: Boss

job: Writer

job: Director of Photography

original_title: Aklasia


title: Verso

overview: A controversial film from Eritrea.

title: Verso

original_title: Verso


title: Shikorinatat (The Beautiful Ones)

overview: The campaign's message is a simple one: Make the right choice-don't drink and drive. Yet, we know that thousands of Eritreans every year continue to make the wrong choices. Every day hundreds of families and communities experience the tragedy and pain inflicted by impaired drivers. The loss extends beyond fatalities and the impact on families. Everyone pays for impaired driving with higher taxes, higher health care costs and higher insurance premiums.  You Drink & Drive. You Lose.

title: Shikorinatat (The Beautiful Ones)

job: Production Assistant

job: Editor

original_title: ሺኮሪናታት