Sudan’s Swinging Film Factory
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.
In this combined programme
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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
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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-n
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Beyond Memory
A girl sits alone in a room with her memories. She misses a man. Perhaps a dead soldier. Dreamy black-and-white.
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Cinema Behind Bars
There are almost no cinemas in Sudan, but they did exist at one point. A cinema owner talks about better days.
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Nomads
In Sudan even the best musicians have to moonlight to get by. When one group found employment as mechanics, their work became rhythmical.
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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 least,
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