Finding Sally

Finding Sally is a documentary based on inexplicable but true events. In the summer of 1973, Sally, a child of an upper-class family, travels to Ethiopia, her home country for holidays. There, she soon becomes an enemy of the state and a top-ranking member of the Communist Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party. And then disappears. Four decades after the fact, director Tamara Dawit tries to put the pieces of her aunt’s disappearance back together in this film, which also exhumes a dark period in Ethiopian political history, marked for its violence, upheaval, and mass killings.