Fig Tree (2019)

Name: Fig Tree
Genre: Drama
Released: Mar 14, 2019
Cast: Betalehem Asmamawe, Yohannes Musa, Rodas Gizaw

93 min

Mar 14, 2019

Amharic, Hebrew

Genre:

Drama

Directors:

Aalam-Warqe Davidian

Creators:

Aalam-Warqe Davidian

16 year old Jewish Mina, is trying to navigate between a surreal routine dictated by the civil war in Ethiopia and her last days of youth with her Christian boyfriend Eli. When she discovers that her family is planning to immigrate to Israel and escape the war, she weaves an alternate plan in order to save Eli. But in times of war, plans tend to go wrong. Marsha's com... Read all

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Fig Tree full movie is released on Mar 14, 2019. Watch Fig Tree online - the Amharic Drama movie from Israel. Fig Tree is directed by Aalam-Warqe Davidian and created by Aalam-Warqe Davidian with Betalehem Asmamawe and Yohannes Musa. Fig Tree is available online on Tubi TV and Kanopy.

Mina is 16 years old. The Ethiopian Civil War has been underway her entire life. She lives with her brother and grandmother in a humble house with newsprint for wallpaper. The family is Jewish and is planning to flee Ethiopia for Israel, where Mina's mother awaits their reunion. But this plan leaves out the person Mina loves most: Eli, her Christian boyfriend, who lives in the woods so as to evade being drafted into Mengistu Haile Mariam's army. Mina hatches a scheme to save Eli, but everyone and everything seems set against her.