In April 2019, the mil­i­tary staged a coup in Sudan, over­throw­ing long-time ruler Omar Al-Bashir. In response, thou­sands of young people took to the streets of Khar­toum, fight­ing against the regime, for a freer, more self-deter­mined life in a new demo­c­ra­t­ic Sudan.

Amidst the eupho­ria of these days, film­mak­er Hind Meddeb cap­tures her images of the rev­o­lu­tion. She meets young activists such as Sha­jane, Maha, Muza­mil and others who are risk­ing every­thing to demand a civil­ian gov­ern­ment after 30 years of dic­ta­tor­ship. They are loud and cre­ative as they raise their voices and remind us of Sudan’s poets and their verses of human­i­ty and jus­tice. In her mon­tage, Med­de­b’s cre­ates a col­lec­tive por­trait of the Sudanese spring of 2019.

Six weeks later, in early June, the mil­i­tary opened fire on the demon­stra­tors for the first time. But bul­lets cannot silence these images.

Hind Meddeb (*1978) grew up between France, Moroc­co and Tunisia. She switched from jour­nal­ism to doc­u­men­tary film and made two fea­ture-length films about the Arab Spring from the per­spec­tive of young people.