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Sami's Odysseys
Sami's Odysseys
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1h 8m
Dir. Robin Dimet - 70min - 2022 - France
In Ethiopia’s labyrinthine capital Addis Ababa, Sami spent long 19 years to translate Greek and Roman myths on an ancient laptop to Amharic, the Ethiopian official language. Director follows a man pursuing his inexplicable dreams in the service of literature. After years of solitary labor, will he succeed in getting his manuscript published in modern-day Ethiopia? A true bibliophile’s gem of a film.
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The erudite and indigent Sami lives in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Nearing sixty, he has just completed a scholarly work in Amharic about Greco-Roman mythology, and he intends to publish it, come hell or high water.