Khalid Ali is a Sudanese clinical academic based at Brighton and Sussex Medical School in the UK. He is a film critic, film festival curator and programmer, and filmmaker. Khalid is a programmer for the "Sudan Independent Film Festival", film and media correspondent for the "Medical Humanities Journal", founder of the first forum for medicine in film in the Arab world "Medfest Egypt", and is a fellow of the Global Health Film programme. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book "The Cinema Clinic: Reflections on Film and Medicine". He has produced two short films, "Those Little Moments" and "On Medicine and Film".