A brief history of African cinema // Various schools of thoughts and movements concerning African Cinema // Elements attributed to African cinema // Contemporary African cinema and its advantages and challenges // Notable filmmakers and films

Aron Yeshitila (*1982) was born in Addis Abeba in Ethiopia and works as an author, screenplay writer, theatre and filmmaker, journalist and dramatic advisor. He studied Theatre Arts at the University Addis Abeba (AAU) and subsequently worked as a theatre and screenplay writer. He was awarded best screenplay writer at the third international Ethiopian Film Festival in 2008 for the film MIZEWOCHU (The Best Men). Aron Yeshitila has worked as a journalist and editor for several weekly newspapers in Ethiopia, as well as on various video projects and the book „Theatre in Sub-Saharan Africa“, which has been translated into German. Aron has lived in Switzerland since 2010, where he filmed his first documentary In the Face of God and Gun (2013). He was the dramatic advisor for Szenart’s What we can build together. He lives in Windisch, canton Aargau. In winter 2016/2017 he appeared in the play Semiramis, a GeeGee Express production performed in market gardens.


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