Life is Fare
An experimental musical movie about Eritrea
This beautiful film about the immigrant experience is a San Francisco film about Eritrea. Sephora Woldu plays "Sephora" who, like the director, is an architecture student but also a filmmaker. She is pitching to her traditional mother a film she wants to make about a man who fled their home country and ended up in San Francisco. As a recently arrived immigrant, he is terribly homesick for his native Eritrea, but will not admit it due to unease towards speaking ill of the country; and more consciously in hesitance of admitting hard truths about his culture and himself. "It’s colorful and visually whimsical in a way that can only be described as if the Wizard of Oz went to Africa," said Woldu.
Directed by Sephora Woldu · Written by Sephora Woldu
Cast
- Getu Mehari Haile Birra
- Almaz Negash Mother
- Dr. Mussie Sibhatu
- Isaac Berhe
- Esther Kibreab
- Natra Zeryihun
- Sephora Woldu Self
Make it a double feature
2h 53m together
Life is Fare
American Satan
A close match in mood and era.
