Sudan

Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home. Unable to confess her transgressions to Julia, Mona decides to leave the past behind and adjust to a new status quo, unaware that the country’s turmoil may find its way into her home and put her face to face with her sins. Weiter

In einem Dorf zwischen Blauem und Weissem Nil verheisst der religiöse Führer der Mutter eines Neugeborenen, dass ihr Sohn mit 20 sterben werde. Der Junge wächst in der Welt frommer Schicksalsergebenheit auf, die ihn an seinen frühen Tod glauben lässt und ihm Erfahrungen, was Leben heisst und heissen kann, verunmöglicht. Mit grossem Respekt vor der Tradition seiner Landsleute zeichnet Regisseur Amjad Abu Alala in seinem Spielfilmerstling nach, wie religiöser Wahn einem Menschen die Lebenskraft raubt. Weiter

Ten years after shooting Kafi's Story, British filmmaker Arthur Howes reentered the Sudan clandestinely to find out what had happened to the Nuba of Torogi.Everywhere, he encountered the face of jihad, or holy war. For example, a remarkable television program, Fields of Sacrifice, celebrates that week's casualties in the war against the Nuba and features family members thanking Allah for having taken their sons and brothers as martyrs. Weiter

Shot between 1986 and 1988, Kafi's Story captures Nuba life at the moment before it was engulfed in the Sudanese civil war. Kafi, a young man from the Nuba Mountains in Sudan, is one of the first to travel north to the capital city Khartoum in search of money. Only when he has money can he buy the cloth for a dress and so marry a second wife. Weiter