Gorgeously made with stories and images that will endure long after viewing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 23, 2022

With equal parts patience and verve, Mexican-Ethiopian director Jessica Beshir traces through the mimetic haze of her film a dark web of political history.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 23, 2022

There are some marvellous images and moods in this misty, impressionistic study.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 20, 2022

Although the pacingcan sometimes be too slow,this is a melancholic, mesmerising storyof a country.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 5, 2022

Unlike any other documentary you're likely to see.

| Sep 17, 2021

Filmed in luminous black and white, each image more beautiful than the last, Faya Dayi is not your typical documentary.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 3, 2021

The feel is dreamlike, like a falling dusk, even when the concerns are concrete.

| Sep 2, 2021

A nonfiction work of sensory immersion that's part anthropology, part poetry.

| May 10, 2021

The documentary's aesthetics strikingly channel the euphoric feelings induced by Ethopia's top cash crop.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 26, 2021

The languid rhythms of the filmmaking mirror the woozy impact of the drug, while a storytelling style that flickers casually between observational verité and esoteric myth-building suggests an in-and-out grasp on reality.

| Mar 11, 2021

Director Jessica Beshir's melancholy documentary gently cradles the ambiguity that defines the essence of the lives of Ethiopian Khat traders, especially the young men who face the painful choice of traveling abroad alone...

| Feb 20, 2021

Not an ordinary fact-filled doc. The slow pacing is not for the restless. More a feeling, a meditation and a work of art that makes today's life in Ethiopia look very mid-century.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 6, 2021

A poetic study of a country intoxicated into listlessness.

| Feb 3, 2021