Ethiopia

Yared Zeleke was born in Ethiopia in 1978. He holds a bachelor degree in International Development from Clark University (United States) and studied cinema at New York University, majoring in writing and directing. He worked for a number of NGOs in the United States, Ethiopia, Namibia, and Norway, before embarking on a directing career. Yared has written, produced, directed and edited several short documentaries and fiction shorts. He has also worked with the director Joshua Atesh Litle on the documentary The Furious Force of Rhymes, which received a number of awards. In 2015, Yared completed his first feature-length movie, Lamb, filmed on the high plateaux of Northern Ethiopia.

Filmography

Full (2009)
Housewarming (2009)
The Quiet Garden (2009)
Lamb (2015)
Das Stadt-Experiment (2021)