Meet the Director of ‘Fig Tree,’ a New Film About Young Love in the Midst of the Ethiopian Civil War

At TIFF, we talk to Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian, the Ethiopian-Israeli filmmaker telling a story that has parallels to her own life

To be 16, in love, and in the middle of a civil war—that’s the territory mined by Ethiopian-Israeli filmmaker Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian in Fig Tree, which received its official World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). It’s her first feature film, and one of several directorial debuts by Africans – and African women, in particular – that premiered at TIFF in 2018 where Davidian was named one of the “Directors to Watch.”

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