Made in Ethiopia
Xinyan Yu & Max Duncan
In Dukem, a city located in the heart of Ethiopia, there is a huge industrial park built by Chinese investors since 2008. Motto, general manager of the park, is a woman of distinction, yet she too must pull out all the stops to make the next, huge expansion a reality. That expansion will involve 30,000 jobs, but it will also leave the park adjacent to a dusty farming town, where people’s lives are still defined by the changing of the seasons. What are the implications of all this?
Filmmakers Xinyan Yu and Max Duncan followed this whole process for four years, resulting in this nuanced film about the many contradictions involved: between the Chinese and the Ethiopians, between urban and rural, between man and woman and, above all, between profit-driven entrepreneuralism and land-rooted tradition. Motto gives her take on things, as do factory worker Beti and farmer Workinesh.
Credits
- Director
- Xinyan Yu & Max Duncan
- Type
- Documentary
- Country
- Canada, Ethiopia, USA, UK, Denmark
- Year
- 2024
- Duration
- 91 minutes
- Spoken Language
- Chinese, Amharic, English, Oromo
- Subtitles
- English
Note: The date and start time of a screening may change. Please check the website of the respective movie theatre for the most up-to-date information.
Theatres, dates and timeslots (to be determined)
- Amersfoort
- Mon 13 Jan at 20:15 in De Lieve Vrouw
- Amsterdam
- Wed 22 Jan at 19:15 in Kriterion*
- Amsterdam
- Thu 30 Jan at 19:00 in Rialto VU*
- Apeldoorn
- Tue 14 Jan at 20:00 in Gigant
- Arnhem
- Wed 22 Jan at 19:00 in Focus Filmtheater
- Breda
- at 16:00 in Filmhuis Breda
- Delft
- Thu 16 Jan in Filmhuis Lumen*
- Den Haag
- Sun 12 Jan at 15:00 in Filmhuis Den Haag*
- Deventer
- at 20:00 in MIMIK
- Gouda
- at 20:00 in Filmhuis Gouda
- Groningen
- Mon 13 Jan at 20:30 in VERA Zienema*
- Hilversum
- Tue 14 Jan at 19:00 in Filmtheater Hilversum
- Leiden
- at 19:00 in Kijkhuis*
- Middelburg
- at 20:00 in Cinema Middelburg*
- Schiedam
- Tue 14 Jan at 20:00 in Wenneker Cinema
- Utrecht
- Mon 13 Jan at 19:00 in Louis Hartlooper Complex*
- Wageningen
- Tue 14 Jan at 20:00 in Movie W*