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Fig Tree

2018

Betalehem Asmamawe, Mareta Getachew, Weyenshiet Belachew, Mitiku Haylu ...

Drama 14 year old Jewish Mina, is trying to navigate between a surreal routine dictated by the civil war in Ethiopia and her last days of youth with her Christian boyfriend Eli. When she discovers that her family is planning to immigrate to Israel and escape the war, she weaves an alternate plan in order to save Eli. But in times of war, plans tend to go wrong.

	Author	Review
United States	Keith Uhlich The Hollywood Reporter	"The film has the feel of lived experience (...) A noble goal, for sure. In execution, however, 'Fig Tree' doesn't register with the full-force illumination of a great work of art"	NEU
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"A potent glimpse of adolescence amid civil war (...) For all the film’s leisurely rhythms and agreeable local color, this is an astutely crafted work"	POS

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