Voices and Visions of Sudan – A Cinematic Reflection FT 'Sudan Remember Us

BlackFest, Aya Films, Almas Arts and Foundation Presents:

In partnership with Migrant Welfare Voluntary Services and hosted by Kuumbaimani Millenium Centre.

We are so proud to be a part of the Voices and Visions of Sudan curated by Talal Afifi – A Cinematic Reflection Tour film screening coming to LIVERPOOL, ' Sudan Remember Us.' Written and Directed by written and directed by Hind Meddeb

Join us for an evening of a film screening raising awareness on the conflict of Sundan and the revolution, food and fundraising for Sudan.

'Sudan, Remember Us' (French: Soudan, souviens-toi) is a 2024 documentary film. It depicts the aftermath of the Sudanese revolution, which resulted in the 2019 overthrow of Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir and a military coup d'état in 2021.

The evening will consist of reflections poetry, Sudanese authentic food and music with the film screening. Guests are welcomed to give in the generous month of Ramandan to supporting families in Sudan.

*Food included in ticket price and prayer room will be accomadated for those observing fast/Ramadan.*

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Curotorial Statement:

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VOICES AND VISIONS OF SUDAN

curated by Talal Afifi

This film program, Voices and Visions of Sudan, invites viewers to engage with Sudan as a living cultural landscape shaped by memory, struggle, and imagination. Through the lens of filmmakers - across generations and aesthetic modes - we encounter cinema as a form of social inquiry and cultural continuity.

These works collectively serve as cross-generational testimonies. They trace the shifting contours of identity, belonging, resistance, and artistic expression within and beyond Sudan’s borders. From the pioneering moves of Gadalla Gubara, who used cinema as a civic tool for public consciousness, to Hussein Shariffe’s Dislocation of Amber, where ruins and silence evoke the deep temporalities of dislocation and colonial residue, each film contributes to an archive of Sudanese experience that is emotional, political, and poetic.

Contemporary works like Sudan, Remember Us offer a rich landscape of post-revolutionary diaspora life, where music, protest, and memory interweave to form transnational imaginaries of home and future. Short fiction films such as Bougainville and Nyerkuk engage with intimate, embodied experiences of grief, masculinity, displacement, and tenacity, revealing how structural violence is lived and narrated in everyday life.

Mia Bittar’s feature film Iman introduces another urgent thread into this tapestry. Based on real events, the film follows the paths of four Sudanese men and women from vastly different backgrounds, each drawn into the shadowed world of radicalization. Though shaped by distinct lives and choices, they arrive at a shared, tragic fate. IMAN offers a sobering, personal lens into the complexities of violent extremism in the decade, exploring how ideological entrapment can fracture individuals, families, and societies. Through its grounded narratives, the film opens up difficult yet necessary conversations around identity, alienation, and the precarious intersections of faith, politics, and youth in a country navigating post-revolutionary uncertainty.

What emerges across this program is a cinematic history, parallel to a set of cultural practices through which Sudanese people have documented themselves, often in the absence or distortion of state archives. These films challenge erasure. They foreground oral memory, visual poetry, and intergenerational dialogue as central methods of cultural survival.

Seen together, these works reveal what cinema and filmmaking have long functioned as in Sudan: to bear witness, to preserve and transmit knowledge, and to offer alternative visions of community and futurity. Voices and Visions of Sudanese Cinema is therefore not just a film series - it is a space of listening, of remembering, and of reimagining what Sudan has been, is, and can become.

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