Sudan Movies

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

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

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...

A major shift of political power in Sudan started with street protests throughout Sudan on 16 December 2018 That resulted in the overthrow of the...

After years of isolation following a series of betrayals, a man finds his quiet life disrupted by the 'processions' of his past. When an old,...

Khartoum: Spring 2019. Mass demonstrations have been underway for a month now, protesting against the military government. Following the welcome end...

Hussain Shariff's first film, a documentary centred on a traditional fertility rite of the Ingessana people in the southern Blue Nile State,...

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 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...

Dr. Atif Abdelmageed travels to Abyei, a disputed border region between South Sudan and Sudan, where he speaks with local residents about their...

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...

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...

A 16mm feature film from Sudan.

The very first Sudanese feature film.

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...