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Difret (Amharic: ድፍረት, lit. 'Courage') is a 2014 Ethiopian drama film written and directed by Zeresenay Berhane Mehari. The film had its premiere in-competition at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival where it won the World Cinematic Dramatic Audience Award. [2] [3] Angelina Jolie served as the executive producer of the film. [4]
Zeresenay Berhane Mehari (born 1974), is an Ethiopian filmmaker. [1] He is notable as the director of critically acclaimed films Difret and Sweetness in the Belly. [2]Apart from cinema, he is the co-founder and Head of Original Content for Kana Television, the number-one rated free-to-air, private satellite entertainment TV channel in Ethiopia.
Difret (Amharic: ድፍረት) (2014) – Ethiopian drama film chronicling a legal-precedent setting court case that outlawed the kidnapping of child brides (ጠለፈ tʼelefa) in Ethiopia [40] Diplomacy (French & German: Diplomatie) (2014) – French-German historical drama film based on the Liberation of Paris and Hitler's response [41]
Ethiopia submitted a film for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film [nb 1] for the first time in 2010. [3] The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. [4]
This is a list of Ethiopian films that are notable and internationally acclaimed. Year Title ... Difret: Zeresenay Berhane Mehari: Drama: 2015: Lamb: Yared Zeleke ...
Meron Getnet is an Ethiopian actress, political activist, journalist and poet. She was known for her critique toward governmental stance during Meles Zenawi administration. A revered film and TV star in Ethiopia, she is best known for her role as Meaza Ashenafi in the critically acclaimed film Difret.
The culture of Ethiopia is diverse and generally structured along ethnolinguistic lines. The country's Afro-Asiatic-speaking majority adhere to an amalgamation of traditions that were developed independently and through interaction with neighboring and far away civilizations, including other parts of Northeast Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, India, and Italy.
The Lebanese film Ghadi was originally selected as their entry for the 86th Academy Awards in a two-way race over Lara Saba's Blind Intersections. [92] When the film's release date was moved from 26 September 2013 to 31 October 2013, it no longer met the eligibility dates and Blind Intersections was submitted instead.