Berlinale Spotlight – Panorama: „Khartoum“

In the organizer's words:

In 2022, four Sudanese filmmakers and a British director embarked on a film project for which they followed five inhabitants of Khartoum to capture their everyday lives and dreams: Street boys Lokain and Wilson rummage through a garbage dump to buy nice T-shirts, tea seller and single mother Khadmallah wants to start her own business and practices math diligently, resistance fighter Jawad protests against the military government and civil servant Majdi takes part in pigeon races with his son.

When filming began, a regime was in power in Sudan that had recently brought down the government. A short time later, the military government split and a war broke out between the army and the Rapid Support Forces militia, displacing more than ten million people. The filmmakers and their protagonists also fled to East Africa. Using animation, green screen reconstructions and dream sequences, they found alternative ways to tell their stories. The result is a lyrical, emotional portrait of various people from Khartoum at a key moment in African history.

PROGRAMME

Welcome

Dr. Gundula Bavendamm, Director of the Documentation Centre Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation

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Film screening

Khartoum

By: Anas Saeed (director, writer), Rawia Aöhag (director), Ibrahim Snoopy (director), Timeea M Ahmed (director), Phil Cox (director, writer)

Country: Sudan / United Kingdom / Germany / Qatar 2025

Language: Arabic with English subtitles

Duration: 80 minutes

Film talk

Frank Albers, Co-Producer

Talal Afifi, Producer (requested)

Moderation: N.N

FURTHER INFORMATION

Admission time: 18.00 hrs

FREE ADMISSION

WITH REGISTRATION

The Berlinale Spotlight - Berlinale Panorama is a cooperation between the Documentation Center Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation and the European Film Market (EFM) of the Berlinale.