Rift Finfinnee

202079 minPG

Synopsis

The film Rift Finfinnee takes the viewer on a journey through the periphery of Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. The film takes the concrete geography, architecture and the every day life as the starting point for an allegorical narrative about the becoming urban of an African society on the edge of civil war.

Credits

Director

Daniel Kötter

Daniel Kötter is a documentary filmmaker and theatre director. He has a strong interest in urbanization and political landscapes in Africa and West Asia. Between 2009–2015 he developed the series state-theatre on conditions of theatre architecture and urban performativity in Lagos, Tehran, Berlin, Detroit, Beirut, and Mönchengladbach (with Constanze Fischbeck). In 2014-2017 he worked with curator Jochen Becker on the research, exhibition, and film project CHINAFRIKA. Under construction. His film Hashti Tehran (2017) was awarded the German Short Film Award. Rift Finfinnee (2020), the film on urbanization in Ethiopia won the DEFA Award at DOK Leipzig. His recent film Landshaft (2023) won the award for Best Documentary from the German Film Critics’ Association.

Details

Country of ProductionEthiopia, Germany
Spoken LanguagesAmharic, Oromo
SubtitleEnglish
ColorColor
Production HouseBlinker Filmproduktion GmbH
Awards2020 - Doc Leipzig (DEFA Award)
Previous Festival2020 - Ji.hlava IDFF
2020 - Doclisboa
2020 - HotDocs

Festival records

Edition | Program

2021International Feature-Length Competition
Competition Program Note
For 20 years straight, FFD’s Competition program has been the main course that is held consistently. This year is the third year for the competition program to present four categories: International Feature-length Documentary, Indonesian Feature-length Documentary, Short Documentary, and Student Documentary. Through the Competition program, we keep trying to organize a place for documentary films from around the world as a reflective medium for responding to issues around us critically and delivered in a creative documentary film.
This year, over 150 films were submitted to our Competition program, from June to August. This number actually is lower than the numbers in the last two years of the festival. But, the quality of this year’s films is incredibly impressive. We have chosen 11 films for the category International Feature-length Documentary, 4 films for the category Indonesian Feature-length Documentary, 6 films for the category Short Documentary, and 3 films for the category Student Documentary. The 24 films will be presented to be the main focus for the FFD audience online or offline.
We have more interest in films with colorful perspectives, narration, or approaches. This year’s juries-who come from different backgrounds-will choose one film from each category to be awarded on the Awarding Night and Closing Ceremony of Festival Film Dokumenter 2021.

— Rugun Sirait
Program Coordinator

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