FINDING SALLY tells the incredible story of a 23-year-old woman from an upper-class family who became a communist rebel with the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party. Idealistic and in love, Sally got caught up in her country's revolutionary fervour and landed on the military government's most wanted list. She went underground, and her family never saw her again.
A personal investigation into the mysterious life of the director's aunt Sally, an Ethiopian aristocrat-turned-communist-rebel who disappeared during the Ethiopian Revolution.

a film by Tamara Mariam DAWIT

Ethiopia, 2020, Feature Documentary, 1h18, in English/ Amharic

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Original Title: FINDING SALLY
Type: Feature Documentary
Languages: English, Amharic
Year: 2020
Running time: 78'
Country: Ethiopia

Producer: Tamara Dawit

Director: Tamara Dalit
Screenwriter: Tamara Dalit

Production : Gobez Media (Ethiopia / Canada)

World Sales: Rise and Shine
Screening Information: www.findingsally.com

Stream in Canada on CBC Gem and in the US on AfroPop/PBS

AWARDS:
Adiaha Award for Best Documentary by an African Woman,
Africa Diaspora Film Festival Audience Award,
Gordon Parks Award for Black Excellence

Nominated:
Canadian Screen Award, Best Documentary Program
Selected at the 2021 Afrika Film Festival in Cologne (Germany)