Ethiopia Movies

For over 35 years Yussuf Mume Saleh journeys at night to the outskirts of the walled city of Harar to bond with his beloved hyenas.

The Ethiopian intellectual Anberber returns to his native country during the repressive totalitarian regime of Haile Mariam Mengistu and the...

Tilahun, a politically apathetic ambulance driver collects bodies from the streets of Ethiopia's capital during a mass killing.

A Film by Kirubel Seyoum

Jonathan Dimbleby’s landmark 1973 documentary “The Unknown Famine” stands as a pivotal moment in Ethiopian history—a...

A film by Fuad Mustefa

A film By Abel Regassa

Three hours outside of Addis Ababa, a bright 14-year-old girl is on her way home from school when men on horses swoop in and kidnap her. The brave...

A Film By Bisrat Mohammed

"This film depicts modern American products and U.S. economic development through the U.S. national exhibit at the 1966 trade fair in Addis Ababa,...

Esayas is a forty something first born guy who still lives with his mother. His younger siblings do everything they can to get him to marry and...

CIA agents Palmer and Gagano are tasked with the perilous mission of destroying “The Soviet Union!" As they enter the system using a VR...

​In 1973, the Jewish community of the village of Gonderchomriam in Ethiopia is preparing for a dangerous journey on foot through Sudan to the...

Set in the ancient Kingdom of Aksum, Negus Armah tells the story of a king, his military campaigns to conquer new lands, and the conflicts and drama...

Set in the Sidist Kilo campus of Addis Ababa University, Kezkaza Welafen directly addresses the social tensions of everyday life for Ethiopian...

In contemporary Ethiopia, a farming community's exodus is disrupted when the patriarch of a prominent family disappears from his grave. Tessema, his...

A Film By Ewnet Asasahegn

Afilm By Saddam Negeso

Derived from a renowned Ethiopian play, the film deals about an endangered marriage at the time the couple is expecting their first baby.

A spiritual journey into the highlands of Harar, immersed in the rituals of khat, a leaf Sufi Muslims chewed for centuries for religious meditations...