Life is Fare

This beautiful film about the immigrant experience is a San Francisco film about Eritrea Sephora Woldu plays Sephora who like the director is an architecture student but also a filmmaker She is pitching to her traditional mother a film she wants to make about a man who fled their home country and ended up in San Francisco As a recently arrived immigrant he is terribly homesick for his native Eritrea but will not admit it due to unease towards speaking ill of the country and more consciously in hesitance of admitting hard truths about his culture and himself Its colorful and visually whimsical in a way that can only be described as if the Wizard of Oz went to Africa said Woldu