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FINDING SALLY

By Tamara DAWIT

GOBEZ MEDIA (ETHIOPIA) - as PROD / CONS

Documentary - Completed 2019

The director’s personal investigation about the mysterious life of her Aunt Sally, an Ethiopian aristocrat turned communist rebel who disappeared during the revolution. By revisiting the past, the film also questions the current political situation in Ethiopia.

Festivals
& Awards

Goteborg IFF 2020

Hot Docs 2020

DOXA 2020

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- CANADA, ETHIOPIA
- Languages
- ENGLISH, AMHARIC
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 78 mn
- Director(s)
- Tamara DAWIT
- Writer(s)
- Tamara DAWIT
- Producer(s)
- Isabelle COUTURE (Catbird Films)
- Synopsis
- Finding Sally tells the incredible story of a 23-year-old woman from an upper class family who became a communist rebel with the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party. Idealistic and in love, Sally got caught up in her country’s revolutionary fever and landed on the military government’s most wanted list. She went underground and her family never saw her again.
  
  Four decades after Sally’s disappearance, Tamara Dawit pieces together the mysterious life of her aunt Sally and revisits the Ethiopian revolution and the genocide that followed, during which half a million people died.

FINDING SALLY

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