''Sudan, Remember Us'' () is a 2024
documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...
written and directed by
Hind Meddeb
Hind Meddeb is a French-Tunisian journalist and documentary film director. Based in Paris, she works both in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. In her films and journalistic writing, she has presented social protests of young people and th ...
. It depicts the
2019 overthrow of Sudanese leader
Omar Al-Bashir and the
subsequent civil war that followed. It premiered at the
81st Venice International Film Festival
The 81st annual Venice International Film Festival will be held from 28 August to 7 September 2024, at Venice Lido in Italy. Tim Burton's ''Beetlejuice Beetlejuice'' will open the festival on 28 August 2024.
French actress Isabelle Huppert will s ...
on 30 August 2024.
Release
It premiered at the
81st Venice International Film Festival
The 81st annual Venice International Film Festival will be held from 28 August to 7 September 2024, at Venice Lido in Italy. Tim Burton's ''Beetlejuice Beetlejuice'' will open the festival on 28 August 2024.
French actress Isabelle Huppert will s ...
in the ''
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'' section on 30 August 2024.
Reception
Murtada Elfadl of ''
Variety
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'' called the film "exhilarating" and "a thoughtful and empathetic look at how collective hope can mobilize a whole generation".
See also
*
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 nineteent ...
* ''
Soudan 2019, année zéro''
References
External links
* {{IMDb title
2020s Arabic-language films
2020s English-language films
2020s French films
2024 documentary films
2024 films
2024 multilingual films
Cultural depictions of politicians
Cultural depictions of Sudanese people
Documentary films about revolutions
Documentary films about Sudan
English-language documentary films
Films about dictators
French multilingual films
French documentary films
Qatari documentary films
Sudanese civil war (2023–present)
Sudanese revolution
Tunisian documentary films
Tunisian multilingual films