Sudan’s Swinging Film Factory
Combined programme
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IFFR 2013
Khartoum is a post-war city. Sudan is divided to the core. But then there is music. Filming is learnt hesitantly. But no one has to tell them anything about music.
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Rabbaba Man
Rabbabas are traditional stringed instruments. The rabbabaman makes them and goes around selling them. A much-loved figure who keeps the old songs ali -
Number 12
Here the ‘twelfth man’ i.e. the crowd who support the team really is just one man. He’s sort of the crowd’s coach. A good-natured agitator. -
Beyond Memory
A girl sits alone in a room with her memories. She misses a man. Perhaps a dead soldier. Dreamy black-and-white. -
Cinema Behind Bars
There are almost no cinemas in Sudan, but they did exist at one point. A cinema owner talks about better days. -
Nomads
In Sudan even the best musicians have to moonlight to get by. When one group found employment as mechanics, their work became rhythmical. -
In Search of Hip-Hop
You don’t expect to find hip-hop in Sudan. Everything God prohibited really is banned there. When you do find some, it is, at the very…