Zemene (2014)

Zemene is a shy 10yearold living in rural Ethiopia with a rare lifethreatening curvature of the spine that limits her world when a chance encounter with an American doctor enables her to secure medical attention With her physical limitations lifted and the confirmation that her life matters she blossoms into a confident young woman using her newly found capabilities to bring hope back to her village Gorgeously filmed in the Ethiopian countryside Zemene is a poignant testament to the strength of the human spirit and a powerful depiction of how much impact one person can have on anothers life Pia Chamberlain