The debut feature of Ethiopian director Zeresenay Berhane Mehari, which has Angelina Jolie on board as an executive producer, is headlined by local star Meron Getnet. By Boyd van Hoeij Difret Film ...

The Ethiopian film Difret, directed by Zeresenay Berhane Mehari, wins the World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. The film crew includes L.A. based Polish ...

PARK CITY, Utah — When Zeresenay Berhane Mehari, newly arrived in the United States to continue his education, wrote to his father in Ethiopia that he’d decided to study film, the reaction was not ...

The compelling “Difret” is a small film with a lot on its mind. Authentic and affecting, this drama about fighting against the Ethiopian tradition of abducting young girls into marriage is potent ...

There is a long-held rural Ethiopian custom of a man kidnapping his bride from her family before their marriage. It's known locally as telefa, and though it's illegal, it impacts around 40 percent of ...

In 1996, Hirut, a 14-year-old student in rural Ethiopia, runs carefree through the countryside after being commended on her school performance by a teacher. Moments later, she's swept up by a group of ...

LONDON, Oct 24, (RTRS): An Ethiopian woman whose terrifying ordeal of kidnap and rape at the hands of her would-be husband inspired Angelina Jolie’s new film Difret says she hopes her story will help ...

Only one film from sub-Saharan Africa (excluding South Africa) has ever won an Academy Award for foreign-language film. That is “Black and White in Color” back in 1976, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Difret, from Ethiopia, tackles, strongly and simply, a kindred subject half a world away. How badly does a world hard ...

"Difret" means "to dare" or "courage" in the Amharic language of Ethiopia. A new film by that name tells the story of an Ethiopian girl who was kidnapped by men on horseback to enforce a "traditional" ...