“Goodbye Julia” Now Available on Netflix MENA

The award-winning Sudanese film Goodbye Julia produced and directed by the award-winning Sudanese filmmaker Mohamed Kordofani is now available on Netflix MENA.

Award-winning Sudanese filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala, who is behind the award-winning feature film and Sudan’s first-ever Oscar submission, You Will Die at 20, made the announcement on 20 June 2024. The film began to stream on Netflix MENA on 30 June 2024.

Goodbye Julia was available for public viewing in VOX Cinemas in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries in December 2023 – January 2024. 

Goodbye Julia has captured international acclaim since its release in May 2023. The film made history as the first-ever Sudanese feature to screen at the Cannes Film Festival 2023 or Festival de Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section, a milestone for Sudan, marking the country’s first ever selection to the internationally renowned festival. Kordofani also won the Un Certain Regard’s freedom prize at Cannes. The film was selected by Sudan to be its second-ever Academy Awards submission for best international feature film.

The feature film follows the divide between Sudan’s north and south. Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona, a Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage, tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s South 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.

The film stars Sudanese actress Eiman Yousif, South Sudanese supermodel Siran Riak, who is making her acting debut in the film, Sudanese actor Nazar Goma and well-known South Sudanese actress Ger Duani. Co-producers are Baho Bakhsh, Safei Eldin Mahmoud, Khaled Awad, Michael Hendricks, Marc Irmer, Faisal Baltyuor, Mohamed Kordofani, Issraa El-Kogali, Ali El Arabi and Adham El Sherif.

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