FINDING SALLY

Credits

Name: FINDING SALLY

Country: Kanada/Äthiopien/USA

Year of publication: 2020

Format: DCP

Language : OF m. engl. UT

Duration: 78 min Minuten

Series: 18. Afrikafilmfestival

Direction: Dawit, Tamara Mariam

Abstract

Sally was a rebel who, after the fall of Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassi in 1974, became a member of the People’s Revolutionary Party to fight against the dictatorial regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam, before one day disappearing without a trace. She came from a wealthy family of intellectuals. Her father was the emperor’s confidant, and her sister worked as an artist, TV presenter, teacher, and for the United Nations – partly in Ethiopia, partly in Canadian exile. Director Tamara Mariam Dawit is one of Sally’s nieces. Four decades after her disappearance, she travels to Ethiopia to visit her family there. As none of her aunts know what happened when Sally went missing, the filmmaker sets off on a research trip into the past and encounters one of the darkest chapters in Ethiopian history.