Ethiopia Movies

Membre, a university graduate, is enjoying a lavish party hosted by her boyfriend when a near accident shakes her so deeply that she suddenly...

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.

A film by Yayeshwerk Endalemaw

By Comedian Yasin Redu

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

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

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

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...

Decades in the making, Haile Gerima's sweeping survey of Italy's brutal colonial legacy in Ethiopia is a monumental reckoning with suppressed...

An indictment of the atrocities and conflict caused by Ethiopia's Dergue Regime.

Zema Hiwot, ("Musical Life") is a two hour romantic tragedy based on the story of a young Ethiopian woman who faces challenge after challenge despite...

SHEPHERD’S CALLING follows an Ethiopian shepherd’s remarkable journey from the rugged caves of Ethiopia to Hollywood, overcoming...

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

Itzhak is an Ethiopian-Jewish boy who dreams of becoming the future Spike Lee of Israel. Generational clashes though incite a surprising chain of...

Film on the rock hewn churches of Lalibela

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 young Ethiopian composer and drummer struggles with a traumatic experience from his childhood when a deaf spirit appears in his life and inspires...

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

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...

A love story about a deeply connected couple, Meron and Abraham.