Sudan Movies

The weekly wrestling tournaments of the Sudanese Nuba migrants in Khartoum usually take place between Northern and Southern Nuba men. The sport helps...

Years of war and ethnic conflict in the Sudan have created a generation of young men, known as the "Lost Boys," who have spent more years in refugee...

The well-known members of the legendary Blue Stars band around today's Khartoum streets and to their performances.

Sudan, in the late 1980s. People cross the desert on foot or cover long distances by car and truck. In Al Mahatta, Eltayeb Mahdi shows encounters at...

Hussain Shariff's first film, a documentary centred on a traditional fertility rite of the Ingessana people in the southern Blue Nile State,...

THE SALON is the story of a unique beauty salon in Khartoum which hides a secret; it doubles as an underground space for women in danger. Run by the...

Told through somatic performance, oral prose, and solfeggio frequencies, Practical Portals is an experimental, moving-image series documenting a...

The very first Sudanese feature film.

An exploration of the plight of Sudanese refugees deciding between settling into their current spaces or waiting to be relocated yet again. After...

Women of War is a short documentary that recounts the stories of several women who have lived through the trials of war in the Blue Nile region of...

In a desperate attempt to find a final resting place for their only child, Thomas is surprised to discover that today is not the right day.

The women in a camp for displaced people in Darfur have to make and carry bricks while the men idle the day away. The film ends with a call for...

Wiped out by Dutch settlers less than a century after their arrival on Mauritius to establish a penal colony, the Dodo continues to live on as a...

Tayba is an intimate portrait of the filmmaker’s aunt as she, from the repose of old age, recollects how she overcame the stigma of divorce and...

Interviews, archival footage, and the experience of one mixed race family bring into relief the struggles in Sudan, from its establishment in 1956 to...

Closed cinemas. Primarily visually approached. Not spectacularly, but quietly and carefully. The symbolism of closed, derelict cinemas is strong....

Eltayeb Mahdis film ARBA'A MARAT LIL ATFAL depicts the everyday life at that time in facilities and schools for children with physical or mental...

A 16mm feature film from Sudan.