sudan, remember us

KHARTOUM
SUDAN, REMEMBER US  It is only recent­ly that the con­flict in Sudan has begun to attract more atten­tion in the inter­na­tion­al press. In fact, the war between Gen­er­al Abdel-Fattah Burhan of the Sudanese Armed Forces SAF and Gen­er­al Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, head of the para­mil­i­tary Rapid Reac­tion Force RSF, is already enter­ing its third year - with dev­as­tat­ing con­se­quences for the pop­u­la­tion: accord­ing to the UN, 13 mil­lion people, around a quar­ter of the pop­u­la­tion, have been dis­placed and are flee­ing through­out the region, while 25 mil­lion are suf­fer­ing from acute hunger. It is esti­mat­ed that between 60,000 and 150,000 people have died as a direct result of vio­lence, hunger, and disease.  Under the title Sudan, Remem­ber Us, we aim to draw atten­tion to this almost for­got­ten - some say ignored - con­flict, which began with the removal of long-time ruler Al-Bashir in April 2019. The people’s demand for the estab­lish­ment of a civil­ian gov­ern­ment remains unful­filled to this day. By show­ing two films lead­ing up to the fes­ti­val (see below) and two doc­u­men­taries in the main pro­gram, we aim … read more

KHARTOUM

Anas Saeed, Ibrahim Snoopy, Phil Cox , Rawia Alhag, Timeea M Ahmed
Germany, Qatar, Sudan, UK 2025 | 80 Min. | DCP, EN subs

Fri, 30-May-25 02:00 PM
Q&A via with:
Talal Afifi
In 2022, a col­lec­tive from the Sudan Film Fac­to­ry began a project to por­tray some people in Sudan’s cap­i­tal, ini­ti­at­ed by British film­mak­er Phil Cox (Native Voice Films). In the … read more

Panel talk


Sun, 01-Jun-25 10:30 AM
Guests:
Aya El Sammani, Roman Deckert, Talal Afifi
REMEMBERING SUDAN With the Sunday mati­nee panel, we want to deepen this series on the sit­u­a­tion in Sudan. Our guest is Aya El Sam­mani, who fled from Khar­toum to Berlin … read more

Sudan, remember us

Hind Meddeb
France, Qatar, Tunisia 2024 | 76 Min. | DCP, EN subs

Sat, 31-May-25 02:00 PM

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.