Screening Room:
Blue
Tigray with Coldplay
Tigray with Coldplay is a return. The filmmaker goes home to Tigray for the first time since the genocide, afraid of what she will find. What she finds is Tigray: strong in its monuments, its staggering geography, its people's pride. But this film looks closer. At the intricacy and simplicity of everyday life carrying an unbearable weight. At kindness that has no reason to still exist and does. At people continuing. Set to Coldplay, the music of the journey, it is a film that breaks your heart and fills it at the same time. Watch it and feel something. Then do something.
Statement
The film exists because the world moved on. International attention on Tigray peaked and faded while the humanitarian crisis; food insecurity, displaced families, survivors of sexual violence living without accountability or support continued. Tigray with Coldplay is not an argument or a report. It is an invitation to look at the people behind the statistics. When audiences see the pride, the kindness, the ordinary life being rebuilt under impossible conditions, it becomes harder to look away. The social impact is in that discomfort the moment you realise you did not know, and now you do, and that changes what you owe.
Cast and Crew
Selamawit - Logistics Hadush - Assistant camera