http://thetrianglemovie.com/
Each year hundreds of Africans from Ethiopia, Eritrea and surrounding
areas leave their home land to partake on a journey across the world
for hope and dreams of coming to America. During this journey they
travel across Africa, Italy, and Mexico to reach America. Many die,
some make it and realize that the American dream is not what they
thought.
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By Celia Wren March 7 at 12:23 PM
New African Films Festival
Ethiopian writer-director Theodros Teshome passed out twice while
filming desert scenes for his movie “Triangle: Going to America.”
“It was, like, 125 degrees. No human being could stand that much
heat,” recalls the filmmaker, who is based in Addis Ababa. “Triangle”
opens the2015 New African Films Festival, which opens March 12 at the
AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center.
Admittedly, Teshome’s personal Saharan discomfort pales in comparison
with the ordeals his characters suffer in “Triangle,” which won an
award at the Pan African Film Festival last month. The 90-minute drama
follows a group of Ethiopian and Eritrean emigres from East Africa
through Libya, across the Mediterranean, into Italy and finally
through Mexico and across the U.S. border.
Death stalks them in the form of sickness, hunger and thirst, a brutal
sandstorm, a maritime squall and ruthless human traffickers.
Nevertheless, romance blooms between Kaleab (Solomon Bogale) and Winta
(Mahder Assefa), who are as shy with each other as they are generous
and loyal to their friends. (The movie is in Amharic with English
subtitles.)
Teshome said he felt compelled to write “Triangle” after hearing the
hair-raising migration tales of many Ethiopians. “When you hear these
stories as a filmmaker, you feel you need to do something about it,”
he said by phone. The film’s title refers to the infamous “triangle
trade,” which linked commerce in sugar, rum and slaves.
“Now they are not forcing us to come,” Teshome said of his fellow
Africans, “but we are willing to come, anyway.”
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