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★
There's a version of Cigarette (or Shigara, to use its Tigrinya title) that works. Fifteen minutes, a young lad picks up smoking, faces the consequences, learns his lesson. That's a perfectly decent skeleton for a public-health short, and the instinct behind it is genuinely good-
Genre Documentary
★★ — Alganesh: Hope On the Horizon (2021)
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