THE MEDALLION

By Ruth HUNDUMA

FIPADOC - INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL, BIARRITZ - as FEST

Documentary - Completed 2024


Festivals
& Awards

FIPADOC 2025
Short Films
    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • ETHIOPIA
    • Languages
    • AMHARIC
    • Duration
    • 19 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ruth HUNDUMA
    • Synopsis
    • Ruth is a teenager in Sudan when her mother gives her a medallion with a portrait of Nefertiti. It symbolizes her mother's beauty, strength and suffering under the dictatorial communist regime that imprisoned her. This object recounts decades of tyranny and civil war.