Videobet Cinema

Videobet Cinema is an independent arthouse cinema. It is inside the building of the Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum at Meskel Square. It opened as a permanent cinema on 6 February 2026.

Background

Beza Hailu Lemma and Bandamlak Yimenu founded Videobet. It started in February 2025 as a film programme at a multiplex in the city. One year later it moved into its own room.

What to expect

The cinema shows independent films from Ethiopia and from other countries. It also shows older films again and programmes of short films. Past programmes had the Ethiopian films Alazar, Faya Dayi and Finding Sally. They also had Paris, Texas, the Senegalese film Mandabi and a series of films by Abbas Kiarostami.

After some films the cinema holds talks with the people who made them. It plans workshops on film criticism.

Getting there

The cinema is on the east side of Meskel Square. Use the car park under the square. Minibuses from Bole, Mexico, Kazanchis and Megenagna stop at the square.

Good to know

The cinema posts its programme and show times on Instagram. Check the page before you go, because the films change each week.