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- Multiple teams race around the globe for $1,000,000 to 'amazing' locations.
- Private investigator John Shaft is recruited to go undercover to break up a modern slavery ring where young Africans are lured to Paris to do chain-gang work.
- Our figurine sized supermen hero embarks on an epic surreal journey that will take him across the Ethiopian post apocalyptic landscape in search of a way to get on the hovering spacecraft that for years has become a landmark in the skies.
- In Italy, a vacationing Englishman leaves his girlfriend for a wealthy mysterious American widow who's sailing the seas in search of her long-lost sailor friend.
- A young lawyer travels to an Ethiopian village to represent Hirut, a 14-year-old girl who shot her would-be husband as he and others were practicing one of the nation's oldest traditions: abduction into marriage.
- Motherland is the most powerful documentary on Africa. Fusing history, culture, politics, and contemporary issues, Motherland sweeps across Africa to tell a new story of a dynamic continent. From the glory and majesty of Africa's past through its complex history. Africa as you have never seen it. From multi-award winning director 'Alik Shahadah (500 Years Later.)
- The story of forgotten Ethiopian musicians who became a considerable inspiration for free jazz and pop music nowadays.
- Three Ethiopian women flee to the U.S. after surviving torture in their home country and then discover that their former interrogator is not only living in the U.S....he is working alongside one of the women at her new job in Atlanta.
- Crime, drugs, HIV/AIDS, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty, corruption, poor health, and underdevelopment plagues people of African descent globally - Why? 500 years later from the onset of Slavery and subsequent Colonialism, Africans are still struggling for basic freedom-Why? Filmed in five continents, and over twenty countries, 500 Years Later engages the authentic retrospective voice, told from the African vantage-point of those whom history has sought to silence by examining the collective atrocities that uprooted Africans from their culture and homeland. 500 Years Later is a timeless compelling journey, infused with the spirit and music of liberation that chronicles the struggle of a people who have fought and continue to fight for the most essential human right - freedom.
- Africa is a continent of magnificent treasures and cultures -- from the breathtaking stone architecture of 1,000-year-old ruins in South Africa to an advanced 16th century international university in Timbuktu. However, for centuries, many of these African wonders have been hidden from the world, lost to the ravages of time, nature and repressive governments. Join Harvard professor, Henry Louis Gates, on the journey from Zanzibar to Timbuktu, the Nile River Valley to Great Zimbabwe, the slave coast of Guinea to the medieval monasteries of Ethiopia in search of the lost wonders of the African world.
- Lambadina is a full feature film focusing on a journey of little boy whose story starts in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and ends in Los Angeles, CA.
- OHNI Case Files is a medical docuseries about the surgical team at Osborne Head and Neck Institute. Each episode tells a unique story about the doctors and the patients they treat.
- It is an intimate and harrowing glimpse into this decade's greatest humanitarian crisis and one of the deadliest conflicts of the 21st century, the hidden genocide of Tigray, Ethiopia. This 30-minute expository film follows a coalition of journalists who will stop at nothing to report the atrocities that have been inflicted upon their land and people, even if it means facing imprisonment or execution. With a powerful combination of first-hand testimonials and on-the-ground war zone footage, Woyane uncovers the brutal reality of the Tigray genocide and brings to light the lived experiences of millions of civilians who have been caught in the crossfires and, in many cases, systematically targeted.
- Why is the Gospel of Love Dividing America? Filmmaker and follower Dan Merchant donned his Bumpersticker Man suit and set out across America in this funny and moving look at the collision of faith and culture.
- From ancient tribal villages and rural working farms, to breathtaking natural parks and big bustling cities, David explores the rich and diverse cultures and culinary worlds of Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar and South Africa.
- This film explores the Queen of Sheba's visit to Jerusalem using the environment to tell the story. Her relationship with King Solomon and the subsequent birth of their son, Menelik, is suggested through music, dancing and sounds. When Menelik grows up into manhood, he persuades his mother to allow him to see his father in Israel. This is depicted through mural paintings. A visit to Jerusalem is granted, and father and son are reunited upon arrival. At this point, Menelik is exposed to the Ark of the Covenant, and his plan to relocate it from Jerusalem to Ethiopia is communicated through mood music and images. When he returns back to Axum with the Ark of the Covenant, jubilant celebration with flutes and drums are used. Ethiopia now becomes a Judeo-Christian country. This offering demonstrates how African men have flourished within an African context in ancient history.
- A young doctor in the South Bronx embarks on a research project to find out why black women are becoming infected with HIV at alarming rates. She takes us into the lives and relationship histories of her black, female patients to find out what social factors are putting them at risk. When she expands her research to include women across boundaries of race, class and country, she discovers a dangerous power imbalance that all heterosexual women face in the bedroom, but rarely discuss. ALL OF US is about HIV/AIDS but it is not a tragedy. It is a story of resilience, courage and activism.
- A young Addis Ababa taxi driver gets caught up in the dark side of love, causing his taxi to be stolen. He finds himself stuck in a relationship with a prostitute, making him confront his past and discover what is the price of love.
- A young man infected with an aggressive strain of rabies must survive long enough to save his fiancee and unborn child from the murderous loan shark that threatens his family. The disease takes hold with unintended consequences as it transforms him to take on the rabid characteristics of the animal that gave him the disease.
- Set against the Ethiopian abandoned children crisis, two orphan brothers are faced with the reality of never being adopted. Inspired by a true story.
- The simple life in his mother's hut off the grid set against the huge TVs in the apartment blocks where the other children live. Asalif adapts to the changes to his familiar surroundings with growing autonomy. He becomes Anbessa, the lion.
- One night, a strange clone of Hitler comes to Fendika - a grassroots tavern in Addis Ababa...
- Want to watch an ethiopian love
- An Ethiopian beer company unites with players from Arsenal F.C. to recreate a famous penalty.
- Forged Ways combines elements of documentary, narrative, and experimental form to create an experience that brings the viewer in as an active participant as opposed to a passive witness. Photographed on location in Harlem, New York, and various locations throughout Ethiopia the film oscillates between the first person account of a film maker, the third person experience of a man navigating the streets of Harlem, and day to day life in the cities and villages of Ethiopia. By subduing any definitive story-line or 'message' the film is able to function as an audio visual meditation on the constructs surrounding African American culture while simultaneously highlighting some of the more subtle implications of maintaining an identity that spans hundreds of years, and thousands of miles.
- Farmland - the new green gold. Hoping for export revenues, Ethiopia's government leases millions of hectares of farmland to foreign investors. But the dream of prosperity has a dark side where the World Bank plays a very questionable role... Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas investigates land grabbing and its impact on people's lives. Pursuing the truth, we meet investors, development bureaucrats, persecuted journalists, struggling environmentalists and evicted farmers deprived of their land.
- A documentary covering the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
- "It was an era, it was the start of a new vision" says Amha Eshete, the first Ethiopian music producer back in the Golden Age, the days of Swingin' Addis. The album releases that have crossed Ethiopian borders are mainly recordings from the 50's to the 80's, however, the contemporary music scene from Addis remains, bar a few exceptions, unknown to the rest of the world. Is Addis still swinging as it used to? Music in Addis is present in actions and sounds spread out on differentiated spaces, it is an expression of the everyday urban life and its processes of transformation and adaptation in the city. New Voices In An Old Flower explores this vitality of music looking at the plurality of the city and its people. Drifting in unplanned tours through the urban landscape of contemporary Addis Ababa, this film is shaped by encounters, dialogues and collaborations with musicians and other inhabitants of the city.
- During several months, we followed Omar Sosa in his tour in East Africa. He played in 4 countries : Sudan, Ethipia, Kenya and Burundi. In each of those countries, he also recorded a song with a local musician for his new album. This 52' is an intimate musical trip in Omar Sosa's vision of life and music, through very deep sharing instants of tradition and modernity. FIlmed with high quality material, this movie is an epic road movie through countries we are not used to film and see and will please everybody in the family.
- This Africa Channel reality series follows the adventures of first-time travelers to the African continent.
- An Ethiopian State Department employee and a retired CIA agent are thrust into an international dilemma when the young woman seeks asylum due to an attempted Coup in her own country and is a target for assassination.
- A widowed father struggles to save his daughter when she becomes a victim of sexual assault.
- in search of the the fabled Ark of the Covenant...
- With their rounded caps, some ten thousand phallic stelae dot the highlands of Sidamo and Gedeo country in southern Ethiopia, covering an area of 10,000 square kilometers. Discovered less than a century ago by a handful of explorers, these gigantic megaliths have been little studied, unlike the anthropomorphic stelae, whose research has revealed their funerary character. A team of scientists led by Roger Joussaume, a French specialist in megalithism, is carrying out an excavation campaign on the numerous archaeological sites in the region. They are attempting to date and understand this heritage, abandoned in its current state by a civilization that is still little known.
- An orphan adopted by her former village school teacher seeks to reveal the truth behind the criminal activities of an elderly international gangster who has initiated a heinous business enterprise focused on Ethiopia. SPOILER ALERT.
- This is the intense account of a special orphanage in Addis Ababa. On their 13th birthday, the children are informed that they were born with HIV. A confrontational story but hopeful too thanks to the lust for life of the children.
- A look at the connection between two grandmothers.
- A photographic record of an Ethiopian journey by plane, automobile and mule, showing the lives, customs, and habits of the people, and the conditions of the country.
- Fikir, a ten-year-old street urchin, wakes up one morning after dreaming of an angel and finds an orange outside of his makeshift dwelling. After a bully steals his shoeshine rig, he is consoled by some other homeless youths and joins them in selling tissues. He interacts with an angel who shows him his true nature and becomes the prophet of the Golden Age. He reaches out to other young parents who are conceiving children who are destined to be prophets, sages, and leaders. Among the conceiving parents are a prostitute who doesn't know the father of her child, a couple from different social classes who elope, a model who must choose between her career and motherhood, and a social worker who works with HIV-positive orphans who conceives with a taxi-van conductor and poet who wants to free the lions at the zoo.
- When young Mesi steps in for her squeamish brother to perform a traditional - male-only - ritual, she faces blame for the negative outcome. Instead, she defiantly questions the wisdom of her elders' beliefs.
- Explores key moments, both public and private, in the life and reign of the Emperor.