UPCOMING SCREENINGS

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LATE APRIL (TBA)
Cleveland International Film Festival
* festival taking place online via CIFF Streams due to Coronavirus

MAY 15-JUNE 15
Ashland Independent Film Festival
Ashland, OR, USA
* festival taking place online due to Coronavirus


SEPT 17-27
Atlanta International Film Festival
* new rescheduled dates for Sept due to Coronavirus

OCT 16-23
Pripovedovalski Festival / Storytelling Festival
Ljubljana, Slovenia
* new rescheduled dates for October due to Coronavirus

FESTIVALS RESCHEDULED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS - NEW DATES TBA :

Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival
Thessaloniki, Greece

Docudays
Kyiv, Ukraine

FREEP Film Festival
Detroit, MI, USA

Special Screening with Afetarik Oral History Project
Washington DC, USA

Murray Center for Documentary
Univ of Missouri-Columbia, USA

Dept of Anthropology + Center for African Studies
University of Florida, USA

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

+ IDFA
*Kids & Docs Competition Nominee

+ Durban International Film Festival
*Special Mention for Best Documentary

+ Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de Indias (FICCI)

+ MiradasDoc - Tenerife, Spain
*El Mirador Award for Best Documentary Feature

+ FIPADOC

+ DocPoint Helsinki

+ Rooftop Films

+ DOC NYC

+ Maryland International Film Festival

+ Rome Independent Film Awards
*Best National Film Nominee

+ Stockfish Film Festival - Reykjavik, Iceland

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

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

+ 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

+ This Human World Film Festival - Vienna, Austria

+ London Migration Film Festival at Bertha DocHouse

+ Tumbleweed Film Festival - Salt Lake City, USA

+ Festival Internacional de Cine de Indias - Cartagena, Colombia

+  Cleveland Intl Film Festival - canceled due to Coronavirus

+ DC Environmental Film Festival - canceled due to Coronavirus

+ RiverRun Intl Film Festival - canceled due to Coronavirus

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

+ CineCulture at Fresno State University

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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