Eyerusaleam Kassahun: Review of Fig Tree by Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian

Eyerusaleam Kassahun: Review of Fig Tree by Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian

Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian, director. Fig Tree. 2018. 93 minutes. Amharic. Black Sheep Film Productions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2022

Fig Tree explores the dilemma of Mina, a sixteen-year-old Ethiopian Jewish girl, who becomes increasingly resistant to her family’s plan to leave Ethiopia for Israel because she is determined not to leave until she has rescued her Christian boyfriend Eli from being drafted into the Derg regime’s army. Read entire review at African Studies Review

Eyerusaleam Kassahun is a lecturer in theatre arts at Addis Ababa University. She directed the romantic comedy Trafiqua (Traffic Cop) and published an essay on women in Ethiopia’s film industry.