Omo Child: The River And The Bush follows the story of Lale Labuko, a member of the Kara tribe and his journey to stop one of their oldest traditions – the slaughtering of children deemed cursed.
This heartwarming documentary infiltrates one of the oldest, and seemingly well-preserved tribes in Ethiopia (although westernization has started to show itself through clothing and education), and uncovers one of their biggest secrets known as ‘mingi.’Mingi is a curse that affects children, and it presents itself to the tribe in three ways: Woman, Girl, or Teeth. Woman Mingi is when a child is born with no elder blessing. Girl Mingi are children born to unwed mothers. Teeth Mingi are children, around the age of two, whose teeth start to come in from the top, rather than the bottom. Three different ways two show the curse, but for all they had the same outcome… they were...
This heartwarming documentary infiltrates one of the oldest, and seemingly well-preserved tribes in Ethiopia (although westernization has started to show itself through clothing and education), and uncovers one of their biggest secrets known as ‘mingi.’Mingi is a curse that affects children, and it presents itself to the tribe in three ways: Woman, Girl, or Teeth. Woman Mingi is when a child is born with no elder blessing. Girl Mingi are children born to unwed mothers. Teeth Mingi are children, around the age of two, whose teeth start to come in from the top, rather than the bottom. Three different ways two show the curse, but for all they had the same outcome… they were...
- 5/29/2015
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Sundance. Berlin. Tribeca. Cannes. Venice. Toronto. New York. Once saved for occasional weeks out of any given year, “film festival season” has now become a year-long event. Be it the aforementioned biggest of the big, or the ever growing slate of must-attend smaller festivals like Hot Docs, True/False, Stanley or Telluride, film festivals are cropping up across the globe.
But very few of them are set against a beautiful landscape quite as glorious as the Mammoth Lakes region of California.
Marking their debut this year, the Mammoth Lakes Film Festival will launch their inaugural lineup this week, with a hotly discussed documentary from Alex Gibney leading the way.
Gibney’s Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine will open the festival this Wednesday. “We are blessed to have gotten such a strong lineup this year,” says Shira Dubrovner, founder of the festival. She, along with veteran programmer Paul Sbrizzi...
But very few of them are set against a beautiful landscape quite as glorious as the Mammoth Lakes region of California.
Marking their debut this year, the Mammoth Lakes Film Festival will launch their inaugural lineup this week, with a hotly discussed documentary from Alex Gibney leading the way.
Gibney’s Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine will open the festival this Wednesday. “We are blessed to have gotten such a strong lineup this year,” says Shira Dubrovner, founder of the festival. She, along with veteran programmer Paul Sbrizzi...
- 5/27/2015
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
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