Light-hearted documentary portrait of Mohamed ‘Haraka’. Everyone in his neighbourhood Ombadda in Omdurman knows ‘the rabbabaman’. He cycles around with his bike and his instruments, selling his rabbabas and singing traditional songs. A guardian of his culture. No wonder everyone loves him.
Also in this combined programme
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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-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…
Film details
- Country of production
- Sudan
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 17'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
