{"id":2722,"date":"2014-12-17T18:05:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T02:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2015.africanfilmfestival.org\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2015-02-10T09:50:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T17:50:14","slug":"difret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2015\/difret\/","title":{"rendered":"DIFRET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Focus on Women\u2019s Rights in Ethiopia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday&#8217;s\u00a0screening with Film Director Zeresenay Berhane Mehari<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After being kidnapped, 14-year-old Hirut shoots and kills her attacker in an act of self-defense, pitting herself and her tenacious lawyer against Ethiopia\u2019s long-standing tradition of marriage by abduction. Based on an extraordinary true story and winner of Audience Awards at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>In Amharic with English subtitles.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sponsored by Linfield College<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DIFRET - Trailer OV with English Subtitles 2015\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wKWz8rEoDKA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Focus on Women\u2019s Rights in Ethiopia Friday&#8217;s\u00a0screening with Film Director Zeresenay Berhane Mehari After being kidnapped, 14-year-old Hirut shoots and kills her attacker in an act of self-defense, pitting herself and her tenacious lawyer against Ethiopia\u2019s long-standing tradition of marriage by abduction. Based on an extraordinary true story and winner of Audience Awards at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopia","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2986,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions\/2986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}