The read
It runs a compact 1h 2m.
Synopsis
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 wants to make about a man who fled their home country and ended up in San Francisco. As a recently arrived immigrant, he is terribly homesick for his native Eritrea, but will not admit it due to unease towards speaking ill of the country; and more consciously in hesitance of admitting hard truths about his culture and himself. "It’s colorful and visually whimsical in a way that can only be described as if the Wizard of Oz went to Africa," said Woldu.
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Key crew
- Sephora WolduDirector
- Sephora WolduWriter
Cast
- Getu MehariHaile Birra
- Almaz NegashMother
- Dr. Mussie SibhatuCast
- Isaac BerheCast
- Esther KibreabCast
- Natra ZeryihunCast
- Sephora WolduSelf
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Themes
africadiasporaeritrea