April

Sudan Film Factory

These films emerge from the heart of a heavy reality, saturated with violence, displacement, and exile, refusing to merely document pain or track the pursuit of devastation. They have transformed into a space for preserving what is meant to be lost, becoming a living voice for what power and war attempt to erase.

This program is rooted in an approach to the aesthetics and ethics of solidarity, an attempt, not without hope, to grasp what has been broken in dominant narratives, and to listen across distances and borders between Sudan and its diasporas, through filmmakers and their audiences, moving between individual experiences and collective pain.

What brings these films together is their presence at the core of today’s urgent questions. They are also part of a broader cinematic voice of Sudanese filmmakers, affirming that their accumulated work is never on the margins of this world; it is an act capable of reconnecting what has been severed and restoring meaning.

This program is a collaboration between the Palestine Film Institute and Sudan Film Factory, grounded in a deep belief in shared human concerns and in the power of cinema and solidarity to transcend crises that cross borders, while helping us recognize our shared positions.

Based in Sudan and diaspora, Sudan Film Factory is a space of making, thinking, and circulation: an art house where cinema is produced, curated, discussed, and set into motion. 

It brings films into relation with publics, histories, and urgencies, sustaining a practice in which images travel across borders while remaining answerable to the textures of lived experience, memory, and collective imagination.