October 2024
Suliman Elnour
, 1978
, 19 min
Suliman Elnour’s graduation film Wa Lakin Alardh Tadur (It Still Rotates) depicts everyday life in a school in South Yemen. A number of these schools were created by the socialist regime specifically for the children of bedouin communities where they learned a variety of skills and subjects including music and critical thinking. The film also…
Eltayeb Mahdi
, 2022
, 85 min
Synopsis In December 2018, the Sudanese people took to the streets in wide protests and demonstrations against the oppressive al-Bashir regime. On April 6th 2019, the protestors staged a sit-in in front of the Sudanese army headquarters in Khartoum that was met with excessive force by militarized troops. Days later, on April 11, 2019, al-Bashir…
, 1977
, 17 min
Al Dhareeh (The Tomb), is Eltayeb Mahdi’s graduation project from the High Institute of Cinema in Cairo. It tells the story of an imposter who claims the power to heal people. Based on real events that occurred along the Nile river in Sudan during the 1960s, the film reflects the popularity of religious imposters in…
Ibrahim Shaddad
, 1981
, 14 min
Jamal (A Camel) is a report from the daily life of a camel, most of which plays out in a dreary, small room – a sesame mill. An account of the resemblances between the camel and the human being, shot at a time when discussing human beings was harder than talking about animals.
, 1964
, 41 min
Ibrahim Shaddad’s graduation film Jagdpartie (Hunting Party), which he shot at the Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst Potsdam-Babelsberg (now: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF), is a treatise on racism. Filmed in a forest in Brandenburg, it takes on a Western point of view to depict a hunt for a Black man.
, 1989
, 16 min
In Al Mahatta (The Station), Eltayeb Mahdi shows encounters at one of the large crossroads between the capital Khartoum in the center of Sudan and Port Sudan on the Red Sea in the late 1980s. Relying on intersecting scenes of travelers who wait long hours for transportation or who cross the desert on foot alongside…
, 1985
, 32 min
Al Habil (The Rope) is a surrealist film shot with 16mm real that documents two blind men making their way through the desert accompanied by a donkey. Connected by a rope, at times it is the two men who direct the donkey, and at others, it is the donkey who leads the men through the…
Mary Jirmanus Saba, Tareq Rantisi
, 2023
Synopsis:Assassinated Lebanese intellectual Mahdi Amel — often dubbed “the Arab Gramsci” — famously said: “He who resists is never defeated.” What use is his thought to us today, and what is our responsibility as image makers to Gaza?
Basma al-Sharif
, 2013
, 24 min
Synopsis:Home Movies Gaza introduces us to the Gaza Strip as a microcosm for the failure of civilisation. In an attempt to describe the everyday of a place that struggles for the most basic of human rights, this video claims a perspective from within the domestic spaces of a territory that is complicated, derelict, and altogether…
Arab Loutfi
, 1993
, 25 min
Synopsis:Jamila’s Mirror deals with the memories of Palestinian female guerilla fighters, currently in their forties, who were involved in military operations during their teen years.
