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Khartoum

Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad
festival
Sat 25 Apr 26 - Sat 2 May 26
  • Content rating: Caution with children up to 16 years of age

Both the most horrific stories and the most beautiful dreams of Khartoum get a worthy place in this documentary. By staying faithful to itself and its characters, the film manages to fuse together the hard reality in Sudan with the blissful love that the characters feel for their home country.

The daily lives of five inhabitants of the Sudanese capital Khartoum are overturned by political chaos and war. Everyone in on the run when the regime disintegrates and the Rapid Support Forces start a genocide. From exile, five characters recall their memories and experiences, as a poetic response to their home sickness. 

To portray such enormous pain in this way, is an art form. The timeline of the footage for this film is completely disrupted, so that the happy neighbourhood gatherings do not waste away as painful memories, but rather eternalise “that” Khartoum. The green screen rooms show a Sudan that no longer exists, but are safe spaces to talk about both the most gruesome moments and the most beautiful dreams. A camel endlessly walks in circles. History repeats itself, but the characters continue to find the way to “their” Khartoum. A warm, imaginative, careful, even cheerful, but especially urgent documentary about the inhuman events taking place in Sudan.

Khartoum
direction
Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad
duration
80 min
year
2025
country
Sudan
language
Arabic, English
Subtitles
Engels
  • Content rating: Caution with children up to 16 years of age

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Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad

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"In this hybrid documentary directed by five filmmakers, memory and imagination converge to rebuild a city’s identity, capturing the survival and hope of those who fled it." - Churchill Osimbo, Sinema Focus

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