The Avalon Theatre, Washington will present acclaimed local Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima's works opening on Friday, September 18, 2009. Winner! 2008 Venice Film Festival Golden Osella, SIGNIS Award (Honorable Mention) and Special Jury Prize.
Teza chronicles the journey of an idealistic doctor who, after studying medicine abroad in Germany for several years, returns home to Ethiopia.
The doctor – Anberber – finds his beloved country, and soon the quiet of his dreams, stifled and disarrayed by the repressive “Marxist” regime of Haile Mariam Mengistu. Anberber’s aspirations to use his trade to better the health of his countrymen are squashed by Mengistu’s military junta; despots who use science for political ends.
Seeking escape from the center of violence, Anberber turns to the solace of his countryside childhood home, but quickly realizes that there is no shelter there.
The competing forces of the military and opposition factions usurp the comfort he thought the memories of his youth would invoke. Anberber must determine if he can bear the strain of his reality and piece together a life from the fragments of a complete existence that lie around him. (Haile Gerima, 2008, 140 min, in Amharic, German and English w/ English subtitles, NR) -- www.theavalon.org
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