Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian’s The Fig Tree won the Audentia Award for best film by a female director at the Toronto International Film Festival, taking home a 30,000 Euro grant. The Fig Tree produced by Naomi Levari and Saar Yogev from Black Sheep Film Productions is Davidian’s feature debut. It defeated 12 other films and also debuted at the festival as part of the Discovery Section.
Davidian, who immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia at the age of 11, filmed the movie in her hometown, Addis Ababa, in Amharic, with a team of local actors. It takes place at the end of the 1980s and the early 1990s and tells of Mina, a young woman who is friends with Ali and meets with him under the fig tree.
Israeli director Guy Nattiv won the Fipresci Jury Award for Special Presentations for his first American film called Skin. Nattiv’s film, who lives in the U.
Davidian, who immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia at the age of 11, filmed the movie in her hometown, Addis Ababa, in Amharic, with a team of local actors. It takes place at the end of the 1980s and the early 1990s and tells of Mina, a young woman who is friends with Ali and meets with him under the fig tree.
Israeli director Guy Nattiv won the Fipresci Jury Award for Special Presentations for his first American film called Skin. Nattiv’s film, who lives in the U.
- 9/17/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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