Sudan Movies

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...

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...

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

When Jafar is detached from his soul in a surreal journey through a forest, he must mentally escape the brutal truths of his homeland's conflict...

A short film presenting a snippet of Sudanese culture and traditions

In December 2018, the Sudanese people took to the streets in wide protests and demonstrations against the oppressive al-Bashir regime. On April 6th...

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

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

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

Documentary about the war in South Sudan.

Located in the central part of the Blue Nile Basin, the Gezira Irrigation Scheme is the biggest gravity irrigation scheme under one management in the...

The very first Sudanese feature film.

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...

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...

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

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

More than 65 cinemas were closed thirty years ago, and more than 100 years in the film industry without films, this documentary is about the history...