Haile Gerima’s Films Mirror Ethiopia’s Struggle - NYTimes.com



Haile Gerima’s Films Mirror Ethiopia’s Struggle - NYTimes.com
By LARRY ROHTER
Published: March 29, 2010
WASHINGTON — Among the courses Haile Gerima teaches at Howard University is one called “Film and Social Change.” But for Mr. Gerima, an Ethiopian director and screenwriter who has lived here since the 1970s in what he calls self-exile, that subject is not just an academic concern: it is also what motivates him to make films with African and African-American themes.
“Teza,” which opens Friday at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas in Manhattan and means “Morning Dew” in the director’s native Amharic, may be Mr. Gerima’s most autobiographical movie yet

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