Creatives of Colour 2026 Festival Film Screening & Panel Discussion

Creatives of Colour 2026 Festival Film Screening & Panel Discussion
Civic House | Saturday May 9, 2026

Part of the , May 7-10, 2026.

Join us at Civic House Film for a screening of Khartoum (2025), followed by a panel dsicsusion from film scholars Umloda Ibrahim and Zahra Khosroshahi.

Tickets: £15 (solidarity) / £10 (standard) / £5 (concession)
Pay what you can / no one turned away for lack of funds - please email [email protected] for this option.

Five lives, one city, a nation at war. A civil servant, a tea lady, a resistance committee volunteer and two street boys. Five stories from Sudan weave together in search of freedom through animated dreams, street revolutions and a war from the metropolis of Khartoum to escape in East Africa.
A film by: Anas Saeed | Rawia Alhag | Ibrahim Snoopy | Timeea M.Ahmed
with Yousef Jubeh & Phil Cox
“As filmmakers behind the camera and participants in front, we’re all from different backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, and social classes. Such differences are what have too often been used to fuel past Sudanese conflicts as well as the current war in Sudan. However, in this film journey we discovered each other in a deeper and richer way and learnt to work together and support each other. We also realized that our diversity is actually a source of strength. We have become one cinema family irrespective of our age, class background, ethnicity or color. We wish our film to be a valuable piece of archive for the future and a poetic tribute to Khartoum and its people and to all the people of Sudan at this pivotal moment in our nation’s history.”
“This film represents our resistance to war and our belief in the Sudanese people to overcome.”
Snoopy, Rawia, Timeea and Anas.
Find out more here: https://www.khartoummovie.comInformation on

Umloda Ibrahim
Umloda is a PhD researcher, studying the history of Sudanese Cinema and investigating how resistance appears in Sudanese films and modes of production. She has interdisciplinary experience working for a range of artistic and cultural organisations, including theatres, media charities, and film festivals. Umloda has curated short film programmes in London and Glasgow over the past year that showcase Sudanese creativity and storytelling. Her interests, other than coffee and finding a good book to disappear into, are in reclaiming narratives that have been overlooked and championing authentic stories about the communities around her.

Zahra Khosroshahi
Zahra Khosroshahi (she/her) is a lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. She is currently working on her forthcoming book entitled Iranian Women Filmmakers: A Cinema of Resistance (Edinburgh University Press). Zahra is a co-editor of the recently published Handbook of Iranian Cinema (IB Tauris 2004). She is also the co-director of the Creatives of Color Festival based in Glasgow and the co-founder of Thousand&One, a global feminist community that support women of colour.

Creatives of Colour Festival

The festival centers the voices, experiences, and creativity of people of colour in Glasgow. Storytelling sits at the heart of these creative practices, and celebrates the resilience, joy, and talent of BIPOC artists. Curated by Zahra Khosroshahi and Kevin Leomo.

Our stories. Our lens. Our terms.

The Festival is supported by ‘Thinking Culture’, a cultural programme from the School of Culture & Creative Arts and the Ferguson Bequest, University of Glasgow.

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Civic House, 26 Civic Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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