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SWEETNESS IN THE BELLY

By Zeresenay MEHARI

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Drama - Post-Production 2018

Set in London with flashbacks to wartorn Ethopia, Lilly, a Caucasian of British descent, abandoned as a child and raised as a devout Muslim in Ethiopia, and Amina, a young Ethiopian mother desperate to flee her tragic past, meet in London as they search for their loved ones. Their unique bond ult

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Countries
- CANADA, IRELAND, UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 5 - 10 M$
- Director(s)
- Zeresenay MEHARI
- Writer(s)
- Laura PHILLIPS
- Cast
- Dakota FANNING, Yahya ABDUL-MATEEN II, Wunmi MOSAKU, Kunal NAYYAR
- Producer(s)
- Jennifer KAWAJA, Julia SERENY, Alan MOLONEY, Susan MULLEN
- Synopsis
- Following his debut DIFRET (winner of the Berlinale Panorama Prize), Zeresenay Mehari directs a powerful love story that explores an immigrant's life from a unique perspective. Dakota Fanning plays Lilly Abdal, a woman caught between two worlds.
  
  Orphaned in Africa as a child, Lilly escapes to England as a refugee, fleeing civil war in Ethiopia. Lost in this cold new world, Lilly embraces the immigrant community in London, attempting to reunite people with their scattered families. But as her friend Amina (Mosaku) discovers, Lilly’s mission isn’t purely selfless: a passionate lost love affair is revealed between Lilly and Aziz (Abdul-Mateen), a revolutionary and a doctor. With the potential for a new romance with shy doctor Robin (Nayyar), can Lilly let go of the past?
  
  SWEETNESS IN THE BELLY is shooting on location in the UNESCO World Heritage site of Harar, Ethiopia and Dublin.