Tizita Hagere
1) Difret
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Amharic
Description
From executive producer Angelina Jolie Pitt comes the award-winning drama based on the inspirational true story of a young Ethiopian girl and a tenacious lawyedr embroiled in a life-or-death clash between cultural traditions and their country's advancement of equal rights. When 14-year-old Hirut is abducted in her rural village's tradition of kidnapping women for marriage, she fights back, accidentally killing her captor and intended husband.
2) Difret
Publisher
Haile Addis Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Amharic
Description
This Sundance Audience Award winner executive produced by Angelina Jolie is about a young lawyer who travels to an Ethiopian village to represent Hirut, a 14-year-old girl who shot her would-be husband as he and others were practicing one of the nation's oldest traditions: abduction into marriage.
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