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Sudan, Remember Us

Sudan, Remember Us

Soudan, souviens-toi
Hind Meddeb
France, Tunisia
2024
76 min
Dutch Premiere
Best of Fests
Synopsis

The streets are empty. A plastic bag swirls in the air. A single bird lands in the dust. The silence is broken by a fighter plane firing a missile. Cell phone footage shows heavily armed soldiers unleashing their machine guns. It is April 2023, and we closely follow a few young people to witness how the war in Sudan is destroying a whole generation like them.

Director Hind Meddeb first visited the capital Khartoum in 2019. There she met the young artists and activists Shajane, Muzamil, Maha, Rufaida, Hamza and Eros. Back then they were in a much more optimistic frame of mind. The dictatorial regime had just been deposed and they were fighting for freedom and democracy with strikes and extended sit-ins.

Sudan, Remember Us shows how these young people are trying to energize their revolution with poetry and music, despite arrests and the bloody putdown of protests. “Words are stronger than bullets,” is their mantra. For a long time fear was muffled by hope, fragments of which Meddeb brings together in this film.

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Credits
76 min
color
DCP
Spoken languages: Arabic, English
Director
    Hind Meddeb
    Hind Meddeb
Production
    Abel Nahmias for Echo Films
    Abel Nahmias for Echo Films
Co-production
    Michel Zana for Blue Train Films ,
    Taoufik Guiga for My Way Productions Tounès
    Michel Zana for Blue Train Films ,
    Taoufik Guiga for My Way Productions Tounès
Cinematography
    Hind Meddeb
    Hind Meddeb
Editing
    Gladys Joujou
    Gladys Joujou
Sound Design
    Damien Tronchot
    Damien Tronchot
World Sales
    Totem Films
    Totem Films
Screening copy
    Blue Train Films
    Blue Train Films
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