Khartoum [Dir. : Anas Saeed]

  • Khartoum [Dir. : Anas Saeed]
Genre : Social
Type : Documentary
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2025
Format : Feature
Running time : 80 (in minutes)

Five lives, one city, a nation at war. A civil servant, a tea lady, a resistance committee volunteer and two street boys. Five stories from Sudan weave together in search of freedom.

In 2022, four Sudanese filmmakers and a British writer-director began filming the everyday lives and dreams of five very different residents of Khartoum. Street boys Lokain and Wilson scour a garbage dump so they can buy two beautiful shirts; tea seller and single mother Khadmallah diligently studies maths so she can start her own business; resistance committee volunteer Jawad protests against the military regime; civil servant Majdi escapes office life by racing pigeons with his son. When filming begins, they are all living under a military regime that had recently overthrown the civilian government in Sudan. A short time later, the regime splits and a war begins between the military and the Rapid Support Forces militias that displaces more than ten million people. The filmmakers and their protagonists, too, are forced to flee to East Africa. Using animation, green screen reconstructions and dream sequences, they find alternative ways to tell their stories. The result is an emotional, lyrical portrait of five people from Khartoum at a key moment in African history.



Film by
Anas Saeed (Director), Rawia Alhag (Director), Ibrahim Snoopy (Director), Timeea M Ahmed (Director), Phil Cox (Director, Screenplay)

with Khadmallah, Majdi, Jawad, Lokain, Wilson


Countries: United Kingdom | Sudan | Germany | Qatar

Year: 2025

Duration: 80 min

Language(s): Arabic | English

RATING: 10 PG


REGISSEUREN | REGISTI | REALIZADORES | DIRECTORS | RÉALISATEURS :
Anas Saeed,
Rawia Alhag,
Ibrahim Snoopy,
Timeea M. Ahmed,
Phil Cox

Screenwriter | Scénariste :
Phil Cox



PRODUKTION / PRODUÇÃO / PRODUCTION / PRODUCTION :
- Sudan Film Factory
- Native Voice Films
- Light Echo Pictures

CONTACT (Print Copy / Diffusion du film, Festivals) :
- Autlook Filmsales (World Sales)


FESTIVALS - PROJECÇÕES / FESTIVALS - SCREENINGS / PROJECTIONS (selection) :
- BERLINALE 2025 (2025) - 🏆 Winner: Berlin Film Peace Award
- Berlin International Film Festival (2025) || 🏆 Winner: Audience Award (Third Place)
- Sundance Film Festival (2025) || 🏆 Nominated: Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema - Documentary
- Barcelona Docs (2025) || 🏆 Winner : Premi Docs Jurat Jove Award
- FESCAAAL, Milan (2025) || 🏆 Winner: International Documentary Audience Award
- International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights, Geneva (2025) || 🏆 Winner: Gilda Vieira de Mello Award: Creative Documentary Competition
- 2025 Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival (Cape Town)
- Festival des cinémas d'Afrique de Lausanne 2025


Fuente / Fontes / Our Source / Quelle / Nos Sources (MAIS INFORMAÇÕES / READ MORE / PLUS D'INFOS) :
► Africiné Magazine (Dakar)
► www.berlinale.de/en/2025/programme/202504921.html
► 2025 Encounters FF | https://encounters.co.za/film/khartoum/
Updated by Mouhammadou SALL, Thierno DIA, 15 August 2025

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