African Cinema. The 6th Ethiopian International Film Festival, 7–14 November 2011

Cine-Ethiopia

“…While the importance and quality of these authors" work is undisputable, it is equally true that this analysis alone cannot make us understand the complexity, historical depth, and aesthetic and narrative specificities of the cinema production which has emerged in the region throughout the past century. As a number of recent publications have highlighted (Ashagrie 2013;Barlet 2015;Tadesse 2016;Jedlowski 2015;M.W. Thomas 2015), over the past two decades Ethiopia has experienced a boom in video film production which has attracted much international interest.…”