Italian Cinema is back in Addis Ababa with the Addis International Film Festival (AIFF), the most important film festival in Ethiopia, which this year reaches its 17th edition and is inaugurated with the world premiere screening of the Italian documentary ‘’Yema e Neka‘’ by Matteo Valsecchi.
Title: ‘’Yema and Neka‘’
Director: Matteo Valsecchi
Year: 2015
Genre: Documentary
Starring: Yemaneberhan Crippa and Nekagenet Crippa
Duration: 23 minutes
‘’Yema and Neka‘’ was selected at various festivals, including the 63rd Trento Film Festival, Foggia Film Festival, Bergfilmfestival Salzburg. It won an award at the 34th Milano International Ficts Fest.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Ct01Vaa-w
Synopsis
A mountain village in Trentino is repopulated by nine Ethiopian boys.
They are all adopted by the same couple, who also take in three problematic adults.
Two of the boys, Yema and Neka, run. They win. They break records.
They are children of the African plateau: light, fast, resilient.
Two new Italians telling, in parallel, their story, and that of their extraordinary family.
