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Life is Fare

An experimental musical movie about Eritrea
Nov 3, 2018 · 1h 2m
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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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CAST

Getu Mehari
Haile Birra
Almaz Negash
Mother
Dr. Mussie Sibhatu
Isaac Berhe
Esther Kibreab
Natra Zeryihun
Sephora Woldu
Self
Directed by Sephora Woldu

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TI
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Abyssurdian Productions
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