Anbessa

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• Genre(s): Documentary, Drama
• Language(s): Amharic
• Director(s): Mo Scarpelli
• Cast(s): Asalif Tewold

• Duration: 1h 25min
• Music: Tijn Hazen,Vera Galesev,Gustavo González,Erik Skodvin,Vladimir Rakić
• Award(s): Festival 2020 (Won)
  Grand Jury Prize 2020 (Nominated) Awards List
• Similar To: Crumbs
• Story:

  Asalif and his mother defy Ethiopia’s omnipresent modern housing development culture, by continuing to live a life characterised by proximity to nature and rootedness in community. The boy counters the ruptures in his accustomed surroundings and the threat posed by the hyena that haunts his neighbourhood by reinventing himself as a hero: as Anbessa, the lion.

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