Sudanese Cinema: The Films, the Filmmakers and the Search for an Audience
Drive-in screening at the Sudanese European Film Festival, 3 March 2021. Photograph: British Council Sudan, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Original photograph reproduced without alteration. This is a dated festival photograph, not evidence of current venue availability. A programme for Sudan’s Independent Film Festival in January 2018 offers a useful starting point for a history usually told through famous directors and international prizes. Its screenings were spread across eight named venues in Khartoum, with free entry. This was a network of cultural spaces, not evidence of eight operating commercial cinemas. It nevertheless shows people organising places to encounter films before the international successes of 2019. British Council programme ...