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A young nurse saves a little girl from a deadly conflict zone, then soon finds herself in the center of the conflict.

A spiritual journey into the highlands of Harar, immersed in the rituals of khat, a leaf Sufi Muslims chewed for centuries for religious meditations - and Ethiopia's most lucrative cash crop today.

In Ethiopia, two men are running to achieve their dreams.

The Ethiopian intellectual Anberber returns to his native country during the repressive totalitarian regime of Haile Mariam Mengistu and the recognition of his own displacement and powerlessness at the dissolution of his people's humanity and social values. After several years spent studying medicine in Germany, he finds the country of his youth replaced by turmoil. His dream of using his craft to improve the health of Ethiopians is squashed by a military junta that uses scientists for its own political ends. Seeking the comfort of his countryside home, Anberber finds no refuge from violence. The solace that the memories of his youth provide is quickly replaced by the competing forces of military and rebelling factions. Anberber needs to decide whether he wants to bear the strain or piece together a life from the fragments that lie around him.

A young lawyer travels to an Ethiopian village to represent Hirut, a 14-year-old girl who shot her would-be husband as he and others were practicing one of the nation's oldest traditions: abduction into marriage.

In Ethiopia; there is a slow boiling of a feud between a wealthy Lord and a protester who feels he is mistreating his laborers. While the viewer gets to closely examine the culture, conversations, and lives of the locals who surround them.

When an Ethiopian boy moves in with distant relatives he takes his pet sheep with him but the upcoming holidays spell danger for his beloved friend.

Derived from a renowned Ethiopian play.

Ethiopia, 1916: Gobeze is a timid, peace-loving, young man of 25; a brilliant student who dedicates his whole life to "Sem Ina Werq" (riddles with dual meaning). He is caught in bed with Aleme by Gonite, her husband and a wealthy old landlord. Following the old Ethiopian tradition, both men's clothes are bound together and the rivals set off on a long journey to the royal court to stand trial.

A farming community in Ethiopia grapples with existential questions when a family patriarch's body mysteriously vanishes from his grave. Beza Hailu Lemma's profoundly affecting drama explores the aftermath.

Framing The Other is about a tourist whose comfortable ideas about taking photos of exotic tribal people in Ethiopia are shaken by her encounter with a Mursi woman.

For over 35 years Yussuf Mume Saleh journeys at night to the outskirts of the walled city of Harar to bond with his beloved hyenas.

'I didn't believe it until I saw it'. A sign on a wall says this, as a hundred Eritrean refugees arrive in Endabaguna collection centre in the Tigray region in Ethiopia, after traveling in an airless truck for four days. Why do people run away? What happens before the infamous images we are shown in the West of refugees crossing the sea? An intense journey through four refugee camps for Eritreans in Ethiopia, amongst unaccompanied children, persecuted Kunamas, people who have been there for as long as 17 years. This journey will follow Dr Alganesh Fessah's work, and her commitment in securing refugee's rights and liberating kidnapped and tortured prisoners in the Sinai desert. Three protagonists: refugees; Ethiopia, a welcoming land; and Alganesh who, among despair, will tell us her hopes on the horizon.

In 1990G.C, Selam, a young beautiful and intelligent woman was aboard to study In Cuba comes back to her mother land and lives in the same house a caring older couple that rented her a single room that was their own duty solider son`s, Abraham`s prior bed room. Selam is unhappy and doesn`t feel like she is back in the mother land as her field of study isn`t relevant back home; in which she drinks every night to forget her sadness. On a random day, Abraham calls his parents to tell them that he is coming back home after a long time. The news shocks his parents as they have to tell Selam to leave her home (Abraham`s bed room) when she least expect it. Yet, Selam convinces Abraham`s mother to give her a week until she find a place to stay. The socially isolated solder, Abraham (Who was on probation at the time) gets very upset with Selam as she comes home drunk every night. yet, eventually, the two fall in love with each other which makes Selam feels like she is really back home in her motherland.

Lambadina is a full feature film focusing on a journey of little boy whose story starts in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and ends in Los Angeles, CA.

The illiterate but clever farmer, Gezahegn, travels to a small town called "Dibab" in search of his missing son. The people of Dibab believe that his son has left for Addis Abeba in pursuit of a better life. However, Gezahegn finds unsent letters in his son's room regarding the town's residents, indicating that something wrong might have happened to him. Gezahegn starts to take the path of his past, from which he has been running away from, as he pursues his search. Gezahegn will stop at nothing to find his son, even if that means exposing the town's people secrets and destroying their lives.

A wealthy businessman tries to buy land for a new factory, but develops a complicated relationship with the young woman who owns the land.