Anbessa
Generation 2019
USA/ITA 2019
by: Mo Scarpelli
Anbessa
Generation 2019
USA/ITA 2019
by: Mo Scarpelli
Anbessa
Generation 2019
USA/ITA 2019
by: Mo Scarpelli
Anbessa
Generation 2019
USA/ITA 2019
by: Mo Scarpelli
Anbessa
Generation 2019
USA/ITA 2019
by: Mo Scarpelli
Feb 9, 2019Gelila Bekele, Mo Scarpelli, Caitlin Mae Burke, Danielle Perissi
The film team right before the film's premiere.
Generation – Anbessa
Feb 9, 2019Mo Scarpelli
The director also did the photography for her film.
Generation – Anbessa
Feb 9, 2019Gelila Bekele
One of the film's producers.
Generation – Anbessa
‘You know, hyenas aren’t the bad ones… These days it’s humans you should fear.’
Asalif and his mother defy the newly-built housing estate which is like all the other ones springing up all over Ethiopia and continue their life within the traditional village community: grazing their animals, tending their gardens and picking fruit off the trees. Asalif’s hut lacks electricity, but the windows of the surrounding high-rises outshine the moon at night. Asalif scours the new city’s streets for electro-junk and builds a spaceship with an engine. His mother recounts ancient legends. Real estate developers buy up more land. Asalif feels increasingly threatened, stalked by the invisible hyena that haunts the area. With a sensitive grasp of her protagonist’s emotional reality, the documentary filmmaker and camerawoman Mo Scarpelli traces Asalif’s transformation into Anbessa, the lion.
by
Mo Scarpelli
USA / Italy 2019
Amharic
Documentary form85’ · Colour
recommendation: 8 years and up
World premiere
Asalif TewoldAlem Sebisibe Ayitenfsu
Born in Michigan, USA in 1986, the Italian-American director and cinematographer works in non-fiction film. Her first feature-length documentary, Frame by Frame, screened at SXSW 2015, the BFI London Film Festival and over 100 other festivals. It won numerous jury and audience awards as well as a Cinema Eye Honors nomination. A Berlinale Talents Alumna from 2018, she is a two-time recipient of Catapult Film Fund support.
Filmography (documentaries)2012 Surviving Kensington 2015 Frame by Frame 2016 El Hara 2018 Anbessa
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2019
Rake Films
Rake Films
Sweet Spot Docs