Tag: ethiopia
Fantasia 2015 Review: CRUMBS Finds Ethiopia In Tarkovsky's Zone
Ethiopian post-apocalypse dystopian fairy tale Crumbs has a decaying handsomeness to match its unique vision. It has a confident and accomplished auteur unwillingness for either pandering or traditionally pleasing its audience, while simultaneously offering an archetypal hero-journey tale. If features an optimistic message...
Aliens Hover Over The Ethiopian Skyline In The First Trailer For CRUMBS
A selection of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Miguel Llanso's Crumbs is - to put it mildly - a weird one. The Spanish born, Ethiopian based director has concocted here a post apocalyptic science fiction tale involving a slowly crumbling...
Durban 2014 Review: BETI AND AMARE Is A Bizarre Ethiopian Oddity
It is 1936 and Mussolini is on the move, the fascist leader's troops pressing into Ethiopia to increase their foothold in Africa. Fearing the worst teenaged girl Beti is sent away from the big city by her mother to live...