Life is Fare
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.
Cast
Getu Mehari
as Haile Birra
Almaz Negash
as Mother
Dr. Mussie Sibhatu
as
Isaac Berhe
as
Esther Kibreab
as
Natra Zeryihun
as
Sephora Woldu
as Self
