Name: VOICES AND VISIONS OF SUDAN
Start: 2026-02-26T17:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-02-26T21:00:00+00:00
Location: Stryx Play Gallery Cafe

Voices and Visions of Sudan, A Cinematic Reflection
About this Event

Come and experience a landmark season of Sudanese cinema. Voices and Visions of Sudan – A Cinematic Reflection, curated by Sudanese film curator Talal Afifi and presented by the Almas Art Foundation, Aya Films, and Maona Art. The programme brings together films that span generations, genres and geographies to illuminate the cultural life of Sudan at a moment of historic transformation.

Voices and Visions of Sudan – A Cinematic Reflection

Curated by Talal Afifi

This film program, Voices and Visions of Sudan, invites viewers to engage with Sudan as a livingcultural 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.

Dislocation of Amber :

The Dislocation of Amber' was filmed in the city of Suakin, a formerly flourishing port in Sudan, now in ruins. Its history is one of famine and opulence, devastation and progress, rich trade and damage, and colonialism.

Cinema in Sudan: Conversations with Gadalla Gubara

The film builds up a portrait of a great Sudanese film-maker, Gadalla Gubara. At eighty-seven, he is one of the pioneers of cinema in Africa. He has recently lost his sight but still continues to film life in Sudan as no one before him. Through his oeuvre, Gadalla reveals to us a Sudan both mysterious and misunderstood. Despite censorship and lack of financial support over sixty years, he has produced cinema that is independent and unique in a country where freedom of expression is a rare luxury.