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Difret. 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.
The Amharic script is an abugida, and the graphemes of the Amharic writing system are called fidäl. [47] It is derived from a modification of the Ge'ez script . [ 13 ] Each character represents a consonant+vowel sequence, but the basic shape of each character is determined by the consonant, which is modified for the vowel.
English. Sankofa (Amharic: ሳንኮፋ) is a 1993 Ethiopian -produced drama film directed by Haile Gerima centered on the Atlantic slave trade. The storyline features Oyafunmike Ogunlano, Kofi Ghanaba, Mutabaruka, Alexandra Duah, and Afemo Omilami. The word Sankofa derives its meaning from the Ghanaian Akan language which means to "go back ...
The Geʽez script has been adapted to write other languages, mostly Ethiosemitic, particularly Amharic in Ethiopia, and Tigrinya in both Eritrea and Ethiopia. It has also been used to write Sebat Bet and other Gurage languages and at least 20 other languages of Ethiopia. In Eritrea it has traditionally been used for Tigre and just recently for ...
Amharic. Yewendoch Guday (Amharic: የወንዶች ጉዳይ, lit. 'Men's Issue') is a 2007 Ethiopian romantic comedy film directed by Henok Ayele and produced by Arkey Sera Production. [ 1 ] The film has been domestically successful and gained large viewers in national cinemas shortly since its release on 17 February 2007. [ 2 ]
Eregnaye (Amharic: እረኛዬ, translated as My Shepherd) is an Ethiopian television drama series written by Azeb Worku, Beza Hailu and Kidist Yilma, with the latter produced it. It premiered on 7 June 2021 [1] on ARTS TV and concluded on 19 August 2022 with 4 season and 48 episodes. Starring Hailemelekot Mewael, Fikreyesus Zewde, Solomon ...
Wosene Worke Kosrof (born 1955) [2] is an Ethiopian painter and mixed-media artist. Wosene (his professional name) was awarded his B.F.A. from the School of Fine Arts in Addis Ababa in 1972, and received an M.F.A. from Howard University in 1980. [2] He is best known for his inventive renderings of the Amharic script; and he is the first ...
Running time. 116 minutes. Country. Ethiopia. Language. Amharic. Running Against the Wind ( Amharic: የነፋሱ ፍልሚያ, romanized : yenefasu filimīya) is a 2019 Ethiopian drama film directed by Jan Philipp Weyl. It was selected as the Ethiopian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not ...