In 2022, four Sudanese filmmakers and a British director-writer began filming the lives of five citizens of Khartoum: a civil servant, a tea lady, a resistance committee volunteer and two street boys. Soon afterwards, however, conflict broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) with devastating ongoing consequences, displacing 12 million people and creating a catastrophic humanitarian crisis, with Khartoum the site of particularly fierce fighting.
The filmmakers and participants escaped to East Africa, where they continued to share their stories. Combining on location footage with intimate explorations of personal experiences of the war through animation, reconstructions and ‘dreamscapes’, the documentary foregrounds the devasting and shared impacts of the conflict on Sudan’s civilian populations and their aspirations for a future beyond the fighting.
Join us for a screening of this documentary and post-viewing panel discussion, featuring one of the film’s directors and participants.
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