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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 ...
Teza ( Amharic: ጤዛ Ṭeza, "Dew") is a 140 minutes 2008 Ethiopian drama film about the Derg period in Ethiopia. [1] Teza won the top award at the 2009 Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou. [2] The film was directed and written by Haile Gerima. [3]
The Amharic script is an abugida, and the graphemes of the Amharic writing system are called fidäl. 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.
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 Athlete. (2009 film) The Athlete ( Amharic: እትሌቱ, Atletu) is a 2009 Ethiopian drama film directed by Davey Frankel and Rasselas Lakew. The film was selected as the Ethiopian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, [1] but it did not make the final shortlist. [2] It was the first Ethiopian film to be ...
Screenwriting. Example of a page from a screenplay formatted for a feature-length film. Screenwriting or scriptwriting is the art and craft of writing scripts for mass media such as feature films, television productions or video games. It is often a freelance profession.
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 ...
An abugida ( / ˌɑːbuːˈɡiːdə, ˌæb -/ ⓘ; [1] from Ge'ez: አቡጊዳ ) – sometimes also called alphasyllabary, neosyllabary, or pseudo-alphabet – is a segmental writing system in which consonant–vowel sequences are written as units; each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation is secondary, similar to a ...