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Sweetness In The Belly
''Sweetness in the Belly'' is a 2019 drama film directed by Zeresenay Berhane Mehari, based on the novel of the same name by Camilla Gibb. It had its world premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. Plot In the 1960s, Lilly, a British girl, is raised as a Muslims, Muslim at a Sufi shrine in Morocco after being abandoned there by her parents. As a young woman in the early 1970s, she is sent to Harar, Ethiopia, where she falls in love with a doctor named Aziz, but they are separated when the Ethiopian Civil War begins. Lilly escapes as a refugee to England. There she befriends Amina, a traumatized fellow refugee who moves in with her. Lilly works as a nurse's aide at a hospital, where a kind doctor named Robin befriends her, but she resists his romantic interest as she hopes to be reunited with Aziz. She and Amina found an association to aid fellow refugees in reunifying their scattered families. Amina and her two children are reunited with her husband, who has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zeresenay Berhane Mehari
Zeresenay Berhane Mehari (born 1974) is an Ethiopian filmmaker. He is notable as the director of critically acclaimed films ''Difret'' and ''Sweetness in the Belly''. Apart from cinema, he is the co-founder and Head of Original Content for Kana Television, the number-one rated free-to-air, private satellite entertainment TV channel in Ethiopia. Personal life He was born in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia in a family with seven siblings. He later moved to USA whereas his brother and sister moved to The Netherlands, and another brother is in Sweden. Career After moving to USA, Mehari studied film at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. While studying, he founded the production company 'Haile–Addis Pictures'. He started to work as a production assistant for two episodes: ''All About Eve'' and ''The Seven Year Itch'' in 2000 television serial ''Backstory''. Then he was the production assistant for episode ''M*A*S*H: Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |