UPCOMING SCREENINGS

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JANUARY 22
FIPADOC
Biarritz, France

JANUARY 27 - FEBRUARY 2
DocPoint Helsinki

FEBRUARY 1-8
MiradasDoc
Tenerife, Spain

MARCH 12-22
DC Environmental Film Festival
Washington DC, USA

MARCH 25 - APRIL 5
Cleveland Intl Film Festival
Cleveland, OH, USA

MARCH 27
Cineculture
Fresno State University, USA

MARCH 22-31
Pripovedovalski Festival // Storytelling Festival
Ljubljana, Slovenia

PREVIOUS FESTIVAL SCREENINGS

+ 69th Berlinale International Film Festival
*Crystal Bear Nominee (Generational KPlus)
*Glashütte Documentary Prize Nominee

+ Human Rights Watch Film Festival London

+ Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival

+ Durban International Film Festival
*Special Mention for Best Documentary

+ Maryland International Film fes

+ Rooftop Films

+ DOC NYC

+ MountainFilm Telluride
*Best Director Award
*Honorable Mention for Best Documentary Feature

+ Maryland International Film Festival

+ Mammoth Lakes Film Festival

+ Berkshire International Film Festival

+ San Francisco DocFest

+ Woods Hole Film Festival
*Runner-up for Best Documentary Feature

+ Port Townsend Film Festival

+ Take One Action Film Festival - Scotland

+ FlyWay Film Festival

+ Heartland Film Festival

+ Santa Fe Independent Film Festival

+ New Hampshire Film Festival

+ UNICEF Innocenti Film Festival - Florence, Italy

+ Cucalorus Film Festival

+ Ljubljana International Film Festival

+ Rome Independent Film Awards
*Nominee for Best National Film

+ IDFA
*Nominee for Kids & Docs Competition

+ Olympia Intl Film Festival for Children & Youth
*ECFA Award for Best Documentary

+ This Human World Film Festival - Vienna, Austria

+ London Migration Film Festival at Bertha DocHouse

PREVIOUS OTHER SCREENINGS

+ Olafur Eliasson Studios
*Special screening for the artist's studio in Berlin

+ Other Cinema series, The Yellow at Wembley Park - London

+ FilmScene - Iowa City, USA

+ Art of Buna - Cologne, Germany

+ Doctober at the Pickford Film Centre - Seattle, USA

+ Copenhagen Architecture Festival
in collaboration with the 2019 C40 World Mayor's Summit

+ UCLA
hosted by Luskin School & African Studies Center

PRESS

"A masterful work of sensory ethnography."
— Film Stage

"Visually arresting... incredibly fascinating, thought-provoking, and absolutely worth watching."
— Film Threat

"Beautiful, humorous, and thought-provoking."
— Little Village

"Eloquent... a tender portrait"
— Sight & Sound Magazine

The 50 Most Anticipated Films of 2019
— Filmmaker Magazine

"Hope and despair intermingle in a profoundly cinematic mix."
— Hammer To Nail

"A touching document that leaves us pensive in the face of our overconsumption society.
The realization is very neat and so very successful."
— Télécable Sat

"Between real and imaginary, a beautiful portrait of a child... which gives shape to his inner universe
while exposing the difficulties of its existence."
— Télérama France

"Radiates an uncommon lightness and a deep sense of harmony with the world around us."
— MyMovies Italy

Anbessa, the strength of the lion in the Ethiopia of change
— Cinecittà News

16 Great Documentaries from 2019
—VOX.com

Fairytales from the In-Between
— Feminist Dispatch Magazine

Growing Pains in Ethiopia: Film Spotlights
Hidden Cost of Urban Growth
— Voice of America

Berlin 2019: Screen's guide to the Special,
Generation and Forum titles
— Screen Daily

Stolz like a lion
— Der Taggespiegel

Berlin: First Generation Section Films Unveiled
— Variety

ANBESSA in La Lucarne
— ARTE Magazine

Ranked in Top 20 of all Berlinale Films
— Cannes/Berlinale Critics Rankings

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