17 Mar Alumni Selected for Vision du Reel Film Competition
Short film “Katanga Nation” from two of our Alumni Hiwot Admasu Getaneh & Beza Hailu Lemma (Ethiopia), has been selected as part of the International Medium Length & Short Film Competition at Vision du Reel 2022.
Beza Hailu Lemma (Ethiopia) was picked up in Cannes in 2019 with the project “The Last Tears of the Deceased” and Hiwot Getaneh (Ethiopia) in Cannes in 2014 with the project “New Eyes”.
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Katanga Nation
SOUTH AFRICA / ETHIOPIA
Synopsis: In the district of Katanga, in Addis Ababa, Amele and her makeshift hostel welcome young people seeking refuge in the Ethiopian capital. Every day sees the arrival of a new person, a new experience, a new story. The filmmakers sensitively paint the portrait of a place and its residents.
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Beza Hailu Lemma
PRODUCER
Beza Hailu Lemma is an Ethiopian filmmaker, producer and writer based in Addis Ababa. A graduate of the Addis Ababa University School of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (2016), he has been busy producing an array of projects, including web-shows, short narrative films and TV productions.
In 2016, he was awarded the 2016 Africa Centre Artist-in-Residency Prize, by the Bundanon Trust in Australia. An alumnus of Berlinale Talents 2019, Beza wrote and directed a narrative short entitled Ballad of the Spirits in 2017 and is currently drafting the script for his 1st narrative feature film.
Hiwot Admasu Getaneh
PRODUCER
Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1988. After studying engineering, she joined the Blue Nile Film Academy where, in 2015, she directed her first short film New Eyes, which screened at the Venice and Toronto international film festivals. Her short documentary, Letters from Ethiopia, was selected for the International Film Festival Rotterdam. She is an alumna of Berlinale Talents and Durban Talents, the TIFF Talent Lab, the Addis to Cannes exchange programme and the Locarno Summer Academy and has participated in the Realness African Screenwriters Residency.