Difret

Sundance 2014
World Cinema
Berlinale 2014
Panorama

Difret

A Film by Zeresenay Berhane Mehari

2014 - Ethiopia - Drama - DCP - 2.35 - 99 min.

with Meron Getnet & Tizita Hagere

Language: Ethiopian
Produced by Mehret Mandefro , Leelai Demoz & Zeresenay Berhane Mehari

Meaza Ashenafi is a young lawyer who operates under the government's radar helping women and children in Ethiopia until one young girl's legal case exposes everything, threatening not only her career but her survival.

Sundance 2014
World Cinema
Berlinale 2014
Panorama

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