Khartoum
LENGTH: 80 mins
DIRECTOR: Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad, Timeea Mohamed Ahmed, Philip Cox
RATING: N/A
Synopsis
A documentary about the quest for freedom of five residents of Khartoum: two men, a woman and two boys. Khartoum begins before the latest outbreak of war in Sudan, when life was good and democracy had arrived at last. And then something different happened and the shooting started……It follows them through their survival and flight from Sudan, and establishing their lives again in neigbouring countries, such as Kenya and Egypt. Their stories are filmed in an interesting way, whereby images are projected onto the screens in front of which the five tell their stories, as they tell them to the camera. This has a powerful effect, and we are with the cameraman as he films and becomes emotionally engaged in the stories.
Award: Peace Film Prize, Berlin IFF; Young Jury Reetena Award, DocsBarceloona ES; Gilda Vieira de Mello Prize for Creative documentaries Competition, Internation FF and forum on Human Rights.
