Voices and Visions of Sudan

CLUB 18+90 min

Voices and Visions of Sudan - A Cinematic Reflection

Sudanese film curator Talal Afifi, Almas Art Foundation, Aya Films, and Maona Art presents a tribute to Sudanese cinema through two visionary filmmakers: one explores Gadalla Gubara’s pioneering legacy via rare archives; the other, a poetic metaphor on beauty, loss, and identity by the acclaimed artist Hussein Shariffe.

Running Order
Conversations with Gadalla Gubara (2008, 52 mins)
Dislocation of Amber (1975, 30 mins)

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.