Ethiopia8 Essential Films from EthiopiaStop 4 of 8

Difret

Name: Difret
Released: 2014

2014

When a bright fourteen-year-old girl is abducted on her way home from school to be forced into marriage, an old custom in rural Ethiopia, she defends herself with a rifle, and a pioneering young lawyer takes up her landmark case. Based on a true story.

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Part of 8 Essential Films from Ethiopia

This film is stop 4 of 8 in the hand-ranked native-cinema route through Ethiopia. See the complete ranking or read the selection methodology.

Watching this film stamps Ethiopia in the 196 country film challenge.