Although perhaps without foresight, Gubara seemingly set out to capture an historic picture of a city that today has completely vanished. He reveals to us the livelier place that Khartoum was before fateful circumstances turned it into a tough, surviving shell of its former self.
Also in this combined programme
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Song of Khartoum
An African response to the city symphony genre captures disparate images of the daily life of Khartoum and sets it to music. -
Tajouj
Set a hundred years back in the eastern part of Sudan in a place of total isolation. The beautiful girl Tajooj is the subject of…
Film details
- Country of production
- Sudan
- Year
- 1960
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2010
- Length
- 24'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
