Posts Tagged by Ethiopian Movies

Talking of Hiroshima

Hiroshima, one of a handful of Ethiopian films to be shot with a Red One camera, premiered recently in Addis Ababa on the heels of a Herculean promotional campaign. The film, written and directed by its main star, Serawit Fikre, featured several renowned actors: Abebe Balcha, Michael Tamere, Mulualem Tadesse, Meseret Mebrate, and others. Cinema… Read more

Hollywood Premiere for Local Film Pendulum

Sunday, March 13, 2011, was an unusually busy afternoon for the security guards at the Millennium Hall gates as they tried to push back hundreds of people trying to enter the hall in time to grab a front row seat for the much publicised Pendulum, a local Amharic film. The gates around the hall had… Read more

Ethiopia takes Africa film honour

An Ethiopian film about the regime of the country’s former dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam has won the chief prize at Africa’s main movie awards ceremony. Teza was the unanimous winner of the Golden Stallion of Yennenga at the event in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Director Haile Gerima’s award was accepted by his sister Selome, who also… Read more