At The Frontiers Of Change Screening - 18.06.15
Director/Anthropologist: Thera Mjaaland, Genet Ashebir (Producer)
Year of Release: 2014
Duration: 38 mins
Country of Production: Endabaguna & Mayshek, North-Western Tigray Ethiopia
Location: Ethiopia
Ethnic Group: Tigrigna
Language: English
The film was made to disseminate my anthropological research back to the community in Tigray, North-Ethiopia where the research was carried out. The research project took as point of departure the statistical fact that girls have started to outnumber boys both in primary and secondary education, not only in the small market town of Endabaguna in Asgede Tsimbla Wereda, north-western Tigray, but in Tigray region in general. However, despite the legal marriage age for both boys and girls now being 18 in Ethiopia, rural Tigrayan girls who want to continue to secondary school in urban areas are still faced with the challenge of underage marriage. While both girls and boys have equal access to education, the fact that Tigrayan girls still shoulder the burden of sexual morality and that female virginity as a requirement in marriage continues to pass unquestioned, impinge on their success in education. The contribution to anthropology of this research is on change and social reproduction from the perspective of Tigrayan girls.
This movie is proceeded by Fatuma and Asya: Two Afar Girls in Ethiopia Screening and The Go-Between: Afar of Ethiopia
The 14th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film will be held in Bristol from Tuesday 16 to Friday 19 June 2015. It is hosted jointly with The Watershed Cinema in Bristol, The Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol and The Center for Visual Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Dornsife College, University of Southern California, LA, California.
The festival programme schedule is now available online, including all film descriptions! Have a look around and start planning your days at the RAI Film Festival.
