It’s been a few weeks since I watched the movie Mother of George and I know it’s still around in some theaters. It was a limited release so maybe it will be easy to watch once the DVD is for sale, anyway, don’t miss it. The [...]

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”Look at the children of the land leaving in droves, leaving their own land with bleeding wounds on their bodies and shock on their faces and blood in their hearts and hunger in their stomachs and grief in their footsteps. Leaving their mothers and fathers and children behind, leaving their [...]

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I was reading an interesting article about Ethiopian migration, and how it has changed over the years and the reasons behind it. Ethiopia has a low emigration rate, compared to other African countries, of about 0.4%, and the phenomenon is fairly recent. According to that study, [...]

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Lately I’ve been watching more interesting movies through streaming than on DVD. Maybe because independent directors find it easier to showcase their movies online and get some profit than trying to enter the regular distribution circuit. Anyway, a couple of weeks ago, we watched Le Havre by director Aki Kaurismäki and [...]

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