MADE IN ETHIOPIA

In the organizer's words:

Documentary - ETH, CDN, GB, US 2024 - 90' - OmeU

Director: Xinyan Yu, Max Duncan

20,000 people work in a Chinese-run industrial park not far from Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa. And businesswoman Motta Ma has further ambitious plans: a second park is to be built to provide work for another 30,000 people in a country where almost half the population is under 18. But then the pandemic strikes and civil war breaks out in the African country, which was still full of hope. A gripping film about China's influence in Africa and how globalization is stumbling.

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