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Life is Fare
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Life is Fare

2018-11-03 · 62 min · Not rated

Fantasy · Music · History

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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Directors
Sephora Woldu
Production companies
Abyssurdian Productions
Countries
United States of America, Eritrea
Status
Released

Top Cast

Getu MehariHaile Birra
Almaz NegashMother
Dr. Mussie Sibhatu
Isaac Berhe
Esther Kibreab
Natra Zeryihun
Sephora WolduSelf

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