MEG's Sunday films continue for another season, focusing on essential and topical themes that echo those of the permanent exhibition.
Documentary, fiction and animated films addressing these themes are shown free of charge in the Museum's Auditorium one or two Sundays a month.
The MEG is once again partnering with the FIFDH for a screening.

Film: Made in Ethiopia, by Xinyan Yu and Max Duncan.
When a huge Chinese industrial park arrives in rural Ethiopia, a farming community finds itself on the edge of the new globalisation. Motto, the formidable Chinese director of this sprawling company, has to concentrate her forces to push through an expansion that promises 30,000 new jobs. Workinesh, an Ethiopian farmer, and Beti, a factory worker, have staked their futures on the prosperity promised by this project. But as their hopes come up against painful realities, they find themselves, like their country, at a decisive crossroads where their faith in industrialisation will be sorely tested.

Running time: 91 minutes.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with Swiss and Ethiopian artist Kidist Hailu Degaffe.

The film is in original version with French subtitles and the discussion will be held in English with French interpretation.

Speaker:
Kidist Hailu Degaffe, known as Degaffe, is a visual artist born in 1969 in Ethiopia. After graduating from Addis Ababa University with a degree in English and Literature in 1992, she worked in various sectors: the aviation industry, journalism, marketing and education. She then decided to follow her vocation to become an artist and, in 2005, studied at a private art school in Addis Ababa.
An artist who is very committed to the rights of women and children, Degaffe takes part in exhibitions with works known as Endurance. Her stories reflect the tenacity and hope of a life free from fear and want. In 2008, she joined thirty contemporary Ethiopian artists to create a 100-metre-long canvas in Addis Ababa as part of a campaign against early marriage in Ethiopia organised by the United Nations.
She has lived in French-speaking Switzerland since 2009. Some of her works are in the collections of the National Museum of Ethiopia and Gallery Brulhart in Geneva.

The screening is free and without registration, subject to availability. Please arrive no later than 5 minutes before the start of the film.