Gubara was proud of the first colour film in African cinema, which attempts to give an African response to the city symphony genre by capturing disparate images of daily life in Khartoum and setting it to music, particularly romantic Arabic songs.
Also in this combined programme
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Khartoum 1960
Gubara captured an historic picture of Khartoum, revealing it to have a liveliness that has completely vanished today. -
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
- 1955
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2010
- Length
- 18'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
