EXILE & CINEMA IN SUDAN PROGRAM

Diary in Exile & Cinema in Sudan: Conversations with Gadalla Gubara - Two films that are not about Sudanese people in a camp talking about their human misery.

Thursday, Dec. 3 @ 4:20PM- Anthology

DIARY IN EXILE

A portrait of those Sudanese men and women who left their country after the coup d'Etat of 1989. Issues of democracy, freedom, return to the mother land and education are discussed in this film that presents a very intimate portrait of Sudanese immigrants in Egypt. By Atteyat Al-Abnoudy & Hussain Sherif, Egypt, 1993, 55min, documentary in Arabic with English subtitles.Shown with "Cinema in Sudan: Conversations with Gadalla Gubara."

CINEMA IN SUDAN: CONVERSATIONS WITH GADALLA GUBARA

Frederique Cifuentes engages the public from the first image of her film. Gadalla Gubara is an intriguing character dressed in traditional garb with dark glasses and a very direct talk about the cultural scenario of his native Sudan. Mr. Gubara is one of Sudan's most important filmmakers. He reveals to us a Sudan mysterious and misunderstood, a country with an unexploited reservoir of stories that go beyond the regular news we have about this country. By Frédérique Cifuentes, France/UK, 2008, 52mins, documentary in English/Arabic with English subtitles.Shown with "Diary in Exile