Movie
Wax & Gold
2026 · 97 min
A quiet, essayistic documentary that drifts between archive images and present-day conversations, asking you to sit with history and memory rather than follow a story.
- Directed by
- Ruth Beckermann
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Ruth Beckermann
- Overview
- Starting from a hotel in Addis Ababa built by Emperor Haile Selassie, Ruth Beckermann explores a place both familiar and foreign to her. Archive footage and conversations on the ground combine personal reflections with the histories of Ethiopia and Europe.
- How it feels
- Measured and demanding.
- About
- Memory, colonialism, identity, politics
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Ruth Beckermann
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Ruth Beckermann
