Berlinale Spotlight – Panorama: „Khartoum“

In 2022, four Sudanese filmmakers and a British director embarked on a film project in which they accompanied five residents of Khartoum to capture their everyday lives and dreams: Street boys Lokain and Wilson scavenge through a rubbish dump to buy nice T-shirts, tea seller and single mother Khadmallah wants to start her own business and practises mathematics diligently, resistance fighter Jawad protests against the military government, and civil servant Majdi takes part in pigeon races with his son. When filming began, Sudan was ruled by a regime that had recently overthrown the government. Shortly afterwards, the military government split and a war broke out between the army and the Rapid Support Forces militia, displacing more than ten million people. The filmmakers and their protagonists also fled to East Africa. Using animations, green screen reconstructions and dream sequences, they found alternative ways to tell their stories. The result is a lyrical, emotional portrait of different people from Khartoum at a key moment in African history.

PROGRAMME

Greeting

Dr. Gundula Bavendamm, Director of the Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation

N. N.

Film screening

Khartoum

By: Anas Saeed (director, screenplay), Rawia Aöhag (director), Ibrahim Snoopy (director), Timeea M Ahmed (director), Phil Cox (director, screenplay)

Country: Sudan / United Kingdom / Germany / Qatar 2025

Language: Arabic with English subtitles

Running time: 80 minutes

Film discussion

Frank Albers, Co-producer

Talal Afifi, Producer (requested)

Moderator: N.N.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Admission: 6 p.m.

FREE ADMISSION

REGISTRATION REQUIRED

The Berlinale Spotlight – Berlinale Panorama is a collaboration between the Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation and the European Film Market (EFM) of the Berlinale.