Fatuma and Asya: Two Afar Girls in Ethiopia Screening - 18.06.15

Director/Anthropologist: Francesco Sincich
Duration: 59 mins
Year of release: 2014
Country of Production: Italy 
Location: Ethiopia
Ethnic Group: Afar people
Language: Afar

Two young Afar girls, Fatuma (10) and Asya (13), show us their daily life in two different contexts of the Afar Region in Ethiopia. Both of them face hard challenges: finding an alternative way to the mandatory arranged marriage (absuma) without breaking the Afar tradition for Fatuma, and the conflict with the Somali Issa and the livestock’s and land’s theft for Asya. Both of them will find the solutions: Fatuma will marry her boyfriend and Asya’s family will recover the stolen cattle thanks to the fi’ma, the traditional Afar militia.

This movie is proceeded by The Go-Between: Afar of Ethiopia

The 14th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film will be held in Bristol from Tue

 

The 14th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film will be held in Bristol from Tue

The 14th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film will be held in Bristol from Tuesday 16 to Friday 19 June 2015. It is hosted jointly with The Watershed Cinema in Bristol, The Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol and The Center for Visual Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Dornsife College, University of Southern California, LA, California.

The festival programme schedule is now available online, including all film descriptions! Have a look around and start planning your days at the RAI Film Festival.