Addis International Film Festival to kick off on Tuesday

The Addis International Film Festival (AIFF) will be held from May 1 to 6, 2018 and will be held in four different venues; Vamdas Entertainment, Italian cultural institute, Hager Fiker Theater and National Archives and Library Agency.
The festival will be featuring over 65 local and international thought provoking, entertaining and memorable film sets across screens at the different venues. The event will also recognize young filmmakers and women filmmakers by showcasing their short and feature films.
On May 2nd and 3rd, the festival will be holding workshops on themes “To Understand and Improve Demography of Forced Migration” and “Displacement and the World in the 21st Century” in the frame of ‘Migration, Displacement & Climate Change’. The two workshops for the two days will be held at Vamdas Entertainment located near Megenagna Square.
The objectives of the workshops are: to exchange experience on the fate of refugees, returnees, internally displaced persons; and to examine issues related to the flows and demographic behaviors of refugees and displaced populations.
It is stated that the target group for the workshop are competent authorities, high school and university students, young unemployed, and NGOs.