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Sudan Independent Film Festival
Sudan Independent Film Festival (SIFF) is an annual festival for Sudanese and international films in Khartoum. Since 2014, it has been organised between January 21–27 by the Sudan Film Factory. Since its beginning, it has served as a showcase for new Sudanese films and as an opportunity for networking for film professionals in East Africa and the wider region. History and scope of the festival The Sudan Film Factory is a privately run, non-commercial organisation for the promotion of cinema and film production in Sudan. As there is no specialised film school for training and no public funding for producing and presenting movies in Sudan, film curator Talal Afifi and other Sudanese filmmakers founded the Sudan Film Factory (SFF) in 2013 as an independent platform "to build the capacities of young Sudanese talents, produce films and expose Sudanese audiences to film making and cinema." Since 2010, it has organised trainings for Sudanese filmmakers, in cooperation with foreign as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talal Afifi
Talal Afifi (, born 1976, in Hamburg, Germany) is a Sudanese film curator and producer. Further, he is the director of the Khartoum-based Sudan Film Factory as well as of the Sudan Independent Film Festival and has helped train a new generation of Sudanese filmmakers since 2009. Biography and career Afifi became active in organizing workshops for future Sudanese filmmakers in 2009. At that time, there were no training and production facilities for filmmaking in Sudan, and most cinemas in the country had been neglected or closed down during the 30 years under the Islamist and military government of Omar al-Bashir. As part of the activities of the German cultural centre - Goethe-Institut - in Sudan, Afifi acted as coordinator of the institute's newly established film production & training project from 2009 to 2012. Having worked before as a cultural manager in Egypt and Sudan, he was managing workshops and the production of a number of short films by emerging Sudanese filmmaker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hussein Shariffe
Hussein Shariffe (7 July 1934 – 21 January 2005, Omdurman, Sudan) was a Sudanese filmmaker, painter, poet and university lecturer at the University of Khartoum. After years of schooling in Khartoum and in Alexandria, Egypt, he studied modern history and fine arts in England, where he had his first exhibition in London's Gallery One in 1957. Back in Sudan in the 1970s, he worked both at the Ministry of Culture and at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Khartoum. In 1973 he began a second artistic career as filmmaker, producing several documentary films and cinematographic essays on subjects such as traditional rites or history in Sudan, as well as on life in exile during his later years in Cairo. Biography and artistic career Hussein Shariffe was the son of a medical doctor and his wife, both from families related to Muhammed Ahmed El-Mahdi (1844–1885), the religious and political founder of the Mahdist State. He spent his first years in a small village, where he was i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema Of Sudan
Cinema of Sudan refers to both the history and present of the making or screening of films in cinemas or film festivals, as well as to the persons involved in this form of audiovisual culture of the Sudan and its history from the late nineteenth century onwards. It began with cinematography during the British colonial presence in 1897 and developed along with advances in film technology during the twentieth century. After independence in 1956, a first era of indigenous Sudanese documentary and feature film production was established, but financial constraints and discouragement by the Islamist government led to the decline of cinema from the 1990s onwards. In the 2010s, several initiatives by Sudanese filmmakers both in Khartoum as well as in the Sudanese diaspora have brought about a revival of filmmaking and public interest in film shows in Sudan. Since 2019, a new generation of Sudanese filmmakers such as Hajooj Kuka, Amjad Abu Alala, Suhaib Gasmelbari, Marwa Zein and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramey Dawoud
Ramey Dawoud is a Demographics of Sudan, Sudanese-American rapper, actor, songwriter, activist and author. He is of Nubians, Nubian descent and his family originates from the Nubian town of Wadi Halfa, Sudan. Ramey Dawoud's music is known for its lyrics highlighting life in the diaspora. He is perhaps best known for his starring role in the award winning short film, ''Faisal Goes West'' (2013). In 2021, Dawoud collaborated with Taras Press to participate in the "Read, Write, and Count in Nubian: ⲅⲉⲣⲓ, ⲫⲁ̄ⲓ̈, ⲟ̄ⲙⲓⲣ!" Kickstarter campaign to publish four books written in Nubian languages to encourage literacy in the Old Nubian, Nubian alphabet, for which he wrote and published ''Nabra's Nubian Numbers,'' a children's book written in Nobiin language, Nobiin and English which teaches Nobiin numbers and incorporates various references to Nubian culture. Discography ; Albums/EPs * ''Diary Of A Menace'' (2008) * ''Reflections EP'' (2013) * ''Kashta'' (2017) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sudanese Revolution
The Sudanese Revolution was a major shift of political power in Sudan that started with street protests throughout Sudan on 19 December 2018 and continued with sustained civil disobedience for about eight months, during which the 2019 Sudanese coup d'état deposed President Omar al-Bashir on 11 April after thirty years in power, 3 June Khartoum massacre took place under the leadership of the Transitional Military Council (TMC) that replaced al-Bashir, and in July and August 2019 the TMC and the Forces of Freedom and Change alliance (FFC) signed a Political Agreement and a Draft Constitutional Declaration legally defining a planned 39-month phase of transitional state institutions and procedures to return Sudan to a civilian democracy. In August and September 2019, the TMC formally transferred executive power to a mixed military–civilian collective head of state, the Sovereignty Council of Sudan, and to a civilian prime minister, Abdalla Hamdok and a mostly civilian cabin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Will Die At Twenty
''You Will Die at Twenty'' () is a 2019 Sudanese drama film directed by Amjad Abu Alala. Selected as the Sudanese entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, it was not nominated. It was the first film from Sudan ever to have been submitted for an Oscar competition. Plot The film's fable-like story is based on a short story by Sudanese writer Hammour Ziada: A Sufi mystic of a Sudanese village in Gezira State near the river Nile predicts that Muzamil, a newborn boy, will die when he reaches the age of twenty. During his first years of adolescence, Muzamil grows up like other children, but sometimes feels uneasy about his future. As a teenager, he gets to know Suleiman, an outsider in the community, who has returned after spending years abroad. Suleiman owns a film projector and starts to show Muzamil movies in his house, thus introducing the young man to an unknown world. Upon turning twenty, he is shown looking at a bus that could take him away. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khartoum Offside
''Khartoum Offside'' (original title: أوفسايد الخرطوم ''Oufsaiyed Elkhortoum'') is a 2019 Sudanese sports documentary film with a focus on young women in Sudan, produced, written and directed by Sudanese filmmaker Marwa Zein. It was globally premiered in the 2019 Berlinale Forum in Germany and is one of the three notable Sudanese films of 2019. The film begins with the lines: as a central message to the documentary. Production It took Zein four years to make this documentary. Due to the generally negative attitude towards women's human rights in Sudan before the Sudanese revolution of 2018/19, Zein did not encounter physical assault, but received threats by Sudanese authorities to destroy the cameras. Nevertheless, the film was shot in Khartoum, Sudan, and produced by Marwa Zein for ORE Productions and Hendrik Underbjerg for Stray Dog Productions, Copenhagen, Denmark and Oslo, Norway. Storyline and background With great determination, a group of young women in Kha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mass Media In Sudan
As of the early 2000s, Sudan had one of the most restrictive media environments in Africa. Sudan’s print media since independence generally have served one of the political parties or the government in power, although there occasionally were outspoken independent newspapers.{{citation-attribution, 1={{Cite encyclopedia , title=Information Media , encyclopedia=Sudan: a country study , publisher=Federal Research Division, Library of Congress , location=Washington, D.C. , url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/cs/pdf/CS_Sudan.pdf , last=Shinn , first=David H. , date=2015 , editor-last=Berry , editor1-first=LaVerle , edition=5th , pages=271–275 , isbn=978-0-8444-0750-0 Though published in 2015, this work covers events in the whole of Sudan (including present-day South Sudan) until the 2011 secession of South Sudan. There was more press freedom under civilian governments than during military regimes. Radio and television were always under much firmer government control, irrespective of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
