The Projector Van: Why Sudan Should Bring Cinema Back on Wheels
In 1968, a young man in Khartoum dressed carefully for an evening out with his brother, his sister-in-law, and his sister. They walked to the cinema to see an Indian film about a mother fighting for her children. Everyone in the city, he recalled decades later, was talking about that film. What stayed with him was not the plot but the outing itself: the family together, dressed up, sharing a dark room with a crowd of strangers. Cinema made that possible. ...