Sudan, Remember Us

In 2019, documentary filmmaker Hind Meddab flew to Sudan to film a sit-in protest at the Army headquarters in Khartoum. The people of Sudan were assembling, demanding reform after decades of military dictatorship. There she met a selection of young activists that she would continue to film over the course of 4 years, from the swell of hope and accomplishment following dictator Omar al-Bashir’s fall to the oppression of the military crackdown and subsequent civil war, which today, leaves Sudan in ruins. 

Standing in front of a powerful army, how could the civilian movement find the strength to persist? In conversations, in demonstrations, on walls, it emerges how the Sudanese tradition for poetry becomes a powerful tool for activism. Art, music and poetry bolster every stage of the Sudanese fight for freedom. Sudan, Remember Us bears witness to a lost revolution and within it unearths a tribute to the power of creativity as a tool of survival and resistance.

Join us for a screening, followed by recitations by two of the poets, Kreem Aldinn Alnoor and Khatab Ahmed, whose journeys are chronicled in Sudan, Remember Us. The afternoon will conclude with an in-conversation between filmmaker Leena Habiballa and activist Alaa Salah, reflecting on the making of the film and on the role of poetry, memory and collective resistance in Sudan’s ongoing struggle for freedom.

Doors open at 1.30pm; event starts at 2pm and finishes at 5pm. 

Film Credits

Writer & Director: Hind Meddeb

Editor: Gladys Joujou

Sound: Hind Meddeb, Damien Tronchot

Script consultants: Nadine Naous, Léa Pernollet

Cast: Shajane Suliman, Maha Elfaki, Ahmed Muzamil, Khatab Ahmed

Production Companies: Echo Films, Blue Train Films, My Way Production Tounès

Producers: Abel Nahmias, Michel Zana, Alice Ormières

Co-producer: Taoufik Guiga