Life is Fare (2018)
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.
Director: Sephora Woldu
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Getu Mehari as Haile Birra |
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Almaz Negash as Mother |
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Dr. Mussie Sibhatu as |
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Isaac Berhe as |
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Esther Kibreab as |
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Natra Zeryihun as |
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Sephora Woldu as Self |
| Writing | Sephora Woldu | Writer |
| Production | Sephora Woldu | Producer |
| Directing | Sephora Woldu | Director |
| Production | Michael Abraham | Executive Producer |
| Production | Richard Alex Durante | Producer |
| Production | Marshall Moses | Producer |
| Production | Kagure Kabue | Producer |
| Production | Kiri Lewallen | Producer |
| Production | Nic Jara | Producer |
| Production | Larry Madrigal | Producer |
| Camera | Richard Alex Durante | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Richard Alex Durante | Camera Operator |
| Editing | Larry Madrigal | Editor |
| Editing | Sephora Woldu | Editor |