Eritrean cinema is still finding its feet as an industry, shaped by decades of conflict and the country's relatively recent independence in 1993. Alganesh: Hope On the Horizon is among the rare films to bring Eritrean stories to international audiences. See what Macca made of it below.
Rating: 1.0★
Cigarette (known in Tigrinya as Shigara) arrived in 2005 as a short-form family comedy produced across the United States and Eritrea, one of the few feature-adjacent works to emerge from a country whose domestic film industry has remained largely invisible to international audiences. Eritrea's cinema culture
Genre Documentary
★★ — Alganesh: Hope On the Horizon (2021)
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