Solomon Mekonen

Solomon Mekonen

Biography

Solomon Mekonen is an Ethiopian filmmaker and researcher based in Berlin. He has a master’s degree in Visual and Media Anthropology from Freie Universität Berlin. He has also received a bachelor's degree in New Media Communications from the Assumption University of Thailand followed by a Cert.H.E. from MetFilm School Berlin upon completion of a one-year Practical Filmmaking course. He is interested in visual storytelling using film and research grounded in anthropology. In his spare time, he is found among friends and family or out in a forest with his bicycle.