Film curator and producer Talal Afifi has unveiled Voices and Visions of Sudan – A Cinematic Reflection, an upcoming touring programme that will provide a “rare opportunity to experience a landmark season of Sudanese cinema”.
Running from October to December 2025, and presented by the Almas Art Foundation, Aya Films and Maona Film, the programme promises to bring together films that “span generations, genres, and geographies to illuminate the cultural life of Sudan at a moment of historic transformation”.
Highlights include Sudan, Remember Us (Hind Meddeb), a touching documentary chronicling the aftermath of the country’s revolution, and Dislocation of Amber (Hussein Shariffe), a poetic meditation on ruins, silence, and identity in postcolonial Sudan.
Afifi said: “This film programme, 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.”
Elsewhere in the programme, Cinema in Sudan: Conversations with Gadalla Gubara will offer a tribute to the pioneering filmmaker who used cinema as a civic tool for public consciousness, and short film Bougainville will explore gender roles and shifting social dynamics in Sudan today.
The programme will tour the UK, from Edinburgh to London, across two months, with the full schedule available below:
- BEAM, Hertford – 16 October 2025
Sudan, Remember Us - The Space, Edinburgh – 17–18 October 2025
Two evenings of screenings including Sudan, Remember Us - ICA, London – 1 November 2025
Sudan, Remember Us with Nyerkuk- 2 November 2025
Cinema in Sudan: Conversations with Gadalla Gubara with Dislocation of Amber
- 2 November 2025
- Birks Cinema, Aberfeldy – 30 November 2025
Sudan, Remember Us with Nyerkuk - Gilmorehill, University of Glasgow – December 2025
Sudanese film retrospective with guest speakers
