Sami’s Odysseys/Les Odyssées de Sami

Sami’s Odysseys/Les Odyssées de Sami
France, 2022, 70’
in Amharic and English w/ Arm./Eng. subtitles

Director, Scriptwriter and Cinematographer: Robin Dimet
Producer: Quentin Laurent
Editors: Mauricio Lleras, Sandra Ach
Sound: Ludovic Elias, Marie Averty
Production Company: Les Films de l’œil sauvage
Co-production: Carthage Films

In Ethiopia’s labyrinthine capital Addis Ababa, Sami spent long 19 years to translate Greek and Roman myths on an ancient laptop to Amharic, the Ethiopian official language. The director follows a man pursuing his inexplicable dreams in the service of literature. After years of solitary labor, will he succeed in getting his manuscript published in modern-day Ethiopia? A true bibliophile’s gem of a film.

Robin Dimet

Robin Dimet studied cinema at the University of Paris VIII before joining the National Institute of Cinematography in Russia (VGIK). Fluent in Russian, he spent fifteen years in the former USSR. He has directed documentaries from Moscow to Siberia, has been a scriptwriter for Russian television, a trainer for scriptwriting residencies, an artistic director of a film festival in Kazakhstan, and a cinematographer for Russian-language documentaries. Sami´s Odysseys is his first feature.

Filmography
Sounds of the Soul (2014), Ça tourne ap (short, 2016), Gare de nuit (short, 2016), Sami’s Odysseys (2022).