Curated by Talal Afifi
Presented by Almas Art Foundation, Aya Films and Maona Art
This autumn, audiences across the UK will have the rare opportunity to experience a landmark season of Sudanese cinema. Voices and Visions of Sudan – A Cinematic Reflection, curated by Sudanese film curator Talal Afifi and presented by the Almas Art Foundation, Aya Films, and Maona Art. The programme brings together films that span generations, genres and geographies to illuminate the cultural life of Sudan at a moment of historic transformation.
The programme traces the legacies of pioneering figures such as Gadalla Gubara, often described as the father of Sudanese cinema, through to urgent new works by contemporary filmmakers confronting the realities of revolution, displacement, and social upheaval. Together, these films present Sudanese cinema as a living archive: one that resists erasure, foregrounds oral memory and visual poetry, and offers alternative visions of community, identity, and futurity.
Tickets for the screenings will be sold on the cinemas' websites, accessible via the links below.
Upcoming screenings:
- BEAM, Hertford – October 16, 2025
Sudan, Remember Us
Tickets available here
- The Space, Edinburgh – October 17–18, 2025
Two evenings of screenings, including Sudan, Remember Us.
- ICA, London – November 1 & November 2, 2025
November 1: Sudan, Remember Us with Nyerkuk
November 2: Cinema in Sudan: Conversations with Gadalla Gubara with Dislocation of Amber
- The Lighthouse, Dublin – November 12 2025
Film TBC
- Birks Cinema, Aberfeldy – November 30, 2025
Sudan, Remember Us with Nyerkuk
- Gilmorehill, University of Glasgow – December 2025
Sudanese film retrospective with guest speakers
More to come (Oxford, Leeds, Birmingham...)
Featured Films:
- Sudan, Remember Us (Hind Meddeb, 2024, 76 mins)
A vital documentary chronicling the aftermath of Sudan’s revolution, where music, protest, and youth activism interweave into a portrait of collective hope and resilience.
- Nyerkuk (Mohamed Kordofani, 2016, 19 mins)
A deeply personal short film depicting the human cost of conflict and displacement through the eyes of a child.
- Cinema in Sudan: Conversations with Gadalla Gubara (Frédérique Cifuentes, 2008, 52 mins)
A tribute to the pioneering filmmaker who used cinema as a civic tool for public consciousness.
- Dislocation of Amber (Hussein Shariffe, 1975, 21 mins)
A poetic meditation on ruins, silence, and identity in postcolonial Sudan.
- Bougainvillea (Yasir Faiz, 2024, 17 mins)
A contemporary short exploring gender roles and shifting social dynamics in Sudan today.
- Iman (Mia Bittar, 2017, 42 mins)
A sobering narrative feature following four Sudanese men and women from different backgrounds drawn into the shadowed world of radicalisation.
- Khartoum (Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy, Anas Saeed, Timeea M Ahmed, Phil Cox, 2025, 80 mins)
Five lives, one city, a nation at war. A civil servant, a tea lady, a resistance committee volunteer and two street boys. Five stories from Sudan weave together in search of freedom through animated dreams, street revolutions and a war from the metropolis of Khartoum to escape in East Africa.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience Sudanese cinema on the big screen.