Nomads is set in a messy, but busy car workshop in Khartoum. The mechanics all love music. Actually, you could call them professional musicians whose hobby is working on cars. Rhythmic documentary with a good sense of mechanical parts.
Also 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 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. -
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…
Film details
- Country of production
- Sudan
- Year
- 2012
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 36'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
