# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yared-zeleke
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:25:22.567Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yared-zeleke"
name: "Yared Zeleke"
slug: "yared-zeleke"
description: "Yared Zeleke is an Ethiopian film director from Addis Ababa. He has an M.F.A. in Writing and Directing from New York University. His first feature film, Lamb, was screened at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Un Certain Regard. It is the first film from Ethiopia to have been officially selected in the festival's 68-year history."
tagline: "Ethiopian film director"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1978"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.44
  momentum:             11.53846153846154
  historical:           7.669618666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3672972/"
    handle:    "nm3672972"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D8%B2%DB%8C%D9%84%DA%A9%DB%92"
    title: "یارید زیلکے"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A"
    title: "ياريد زيليكي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yared_Zeleke"
    title: "Yared Zeleke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yared_Zeleke"
    title: "Yared Zeleke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yared_Zeleke"
    title: "Yared Zeleke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yared_Zeleke"
    title: "Yared Zeleke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yared_Zeleke"
    title: "Yared Zeleke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yared_Zeleke"
    title: "Yared Zeleke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20002729"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1458319"
    title: "Yared Zeleke"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump