Sudan Movies

A 16mm feature film from Sudan.

The very first Sudanese feature film.

Movie by Ali al ghazouli

The women in a camp for displaced people in Darfur have to make and carry bricks while the men idle the day away. The film ends with a call for...

The well-known members of the legendary Blue Stars band around today's Khartoum streets and to their performances.

Suzi (Suzannah Mirghani) is the voice of her generation—the virtual voice, that is.

Two blind men make their way through the desert accompanied by a donkey. Connected by a rope, sometimes the two men decide the way, and sometimes the...

Documentary about the war in South Sudan.

The film captures the struggles of Sudanese revolutionaries after the October 2021 coup – a turning point that halted the revolution's progress...

Exiled to Cairo, chasing knowledge under foreign skies. The first, bound by poverty’s tight chains, Struggles with grit as he studies by day...

Located in the central part of the Blue Nile Basin, the Gezira Irrigation Scheme is the biggest gravity irrigation scheme under one management in the...

Told through somatic performance, oral prose, and solfeggio frequencies, Practical Portals is an experimental, moving-image series documenting a...

Fear and anxiety dominate the mind of a young man in isolation, talking to himself, and trying to get out of that isolation.

A short film presenting a snippet of Sudanese culture and traditions

THE SALON is the story of a unique beauty salon in Khartoum which hides a secret; it doubles as an underground space for women in danger. Run by the...

In December 2018, the Sudanese people took to the streets in wide protests and demonstrations against the oppressive al-Bashir regime. On April 6th...

Women of War is a short documentary that recounts the stories of several women who have lived through the trials of war in the Blue Nile region of...

Tayba is an intimate portrait of the filmmaker’s aunt as she, from the repose of old age, recollects how she overcame the stigma of divorce and...

The weekly wrestling tournaments of the Sudanese Nuba migrants in Khartoum usually take place between Northern and Southern Nuba men. The sport helps...

Interviews, archival footage, and the experience of one mixed race family bring into relief the struggles in Sudan, from its establishment in 1956 to...