Movies: Eritrea

The beautiful and spoilt Yerusalem had a wonderful life in Paris as the wife of the Eritrean Ambassador. Due to political changes, her husband is arrested, and she has to run for her life, finding herself in a refugee shelter in south Tel Aviv, where...

Rotem Genossar, a teacher at the Bialik-Rogozin campus in south Tel Aviv, founds a running group for his students, young African refugees whose families fled their homeland and now live in Israel without any legal status. At first running is just a s...

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Biniam Girmay’s recent successes have shown that African cycling is on the up, ready at last to follow athletics and football into the big time. But why has it taken so long, and what’s needed to take it all the way? Set against the beauty and battle...

When two women with a video camera follow an HIV research team to Eritrea, Africa, they find a strange and magical country which transforms their documentary into an intimate investigation of their own capacities to love, suffer and forgive....

A film that excavates layers of myth and memory, on an ancient Eritrean steam railway, to learn the elusive truth about Eritrea, its war-ridden history, and at the core of it all, a deep friendship that keeps it all going....

This beautiful film about the immigrant experience is a San Francisco film about Eritrea. Sephora Woldu plays "Sephora" who, like the director, is an architecture student but also a filmmaker. She is pitching to her traditional mother a film she want...

An epic-like story of a young Eritrean soldier who deserts the British army in order to protect his village from a marauding bandit....

Milenu is based on very popular Eritrean story about a girl whose parents wanted to marry her to her own brother. Being in love with another young man, she refuses her parents' decision and flees the village to take refuge up in an oak tree....

When a group of Eritrean refugees arrive in the small town of Härnösand there is a growing sentiment against them from the locals. 17-year old Sara Westin decides to found an anti-racist group to combat these feelings but when Sara and her best frien...

An East African kid (Aginy Teklu) and his friends wakes up every morning to collect a valuable fruit called Beles from the deep mountains of his village....

A market in Eritrea, a bar, a boat, streets in Brussels and Helsinki. The avatar in this realistic animation is in many places simultaneously. He explores the earth with stops and starts, stepping from one world into the next. His home is the stable ...