Join us in May - June 2024 for the first segment of our “National Cinemas” series, focused on Sudan and the works of the Sudanese Film Group. This program was funded with the support of the Goethe Institute and the British Council.

Art for the People: African National Cinemas looks at the emergence of “national” policies for cinema production in the era of decolonization movements and later postcolonial independent states in four countries, Nigeria, Sudan, Cameroon and Mozambique. This project looks critically at the frame of the “nation” as a fraught ideological and material context in which African films were made, promoted, circulated in the post-independence era. Each of these contexts, while harnessing the idea of the nation, offered very different approaches to the daunting task of decolonizing the image, and the role of cinema in creating a sense of collective, if not national identity, and political consciousness.

Screening program:

• ‘جمل‎’ Jamal, (A Camel) 1981, Ibrahim Shaddad, 14’

• Al Habil (The Rope), 1985, Ibrahim Shaddad, 31

• ’‘إنسان’ Insan (Human Being) 1994, Ibrahim Shaddad, 27’