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In her hypnotic documentary feature Faya Dayi—a New York Times Critic’s Pick—Jessica Beshir explores the coexistence of everyday life and its mythical undercurrents in her hometown of Harar, Ethiopia.
Beshir was forced to leave Harar with her family as a teenager due to growing political strife. Though a deeply personal project, the film she returned to make about the city, its Oromo community of farmers, and the harvesting of the country’s most sought-after export—the euphoria-inducing khat plant—is neither a straightforward work of nostalgia nor an issue-oriented doc about a particular drug culture. Rather, the Ethiopian-Mexican director has constructed something thoroughly dreamlike: a work that uses light, texture, and sound to illuminate the spiritual lives of people whose experiences often become fodder for ripped-from-the-headlines tales of migration. In Amharic, Harari, and Oromiffa with English subtitles. (120 mins., DCP)
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Faya Dayi, image courtesy of Janus Films
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Faya Dayi
