Sidet Forced Exile (1991)

During the past two decades more than two million refugees have left Ethiopia Famine poverty and political strife as well as the religious persecution caused by Eritreas annexation have already cost countless lives Narrated by Salem Mekuria an Ethiopian filmmaker in the US this lucid documentary presents the life stories of three women refugees in neighboring Sudan It traces the attempts of individual women to survive displacement resettlement camps and ineffectual bureaucracy An astute politically sophisticated analysis of social and economic crisis from the perspective of Third World women