Film and Documentary

The award-winning Sudanese film Khartoum received the Bill Nemtin Award for Best Social Impact Documentary on 4 May 2025 at the 2025 Hot Docs Festival in Toronto, Canada. The Bill Nemtin Award for Best Social Impact Documentary is...

‘There are, it is clear, many Sudans, both real and imaginary – and many more possible Sudans. No account of these myriad visions of the country can be definitive,’ says a quote from The Sudan Handbook,...

‘Sudan, Remember Us’, a powerful documentary, which captures a jubilant moment of defiance among young Sudanese activists after the overthrow of a long dictatorship, and then chronicles the military crackdown that followed, by French-Tunisian journalist Hind...

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...

MADANIYA is a new feature documentary about the revolution in Sudan, which began on 19 December 2018 in response to hiking prices of bread and other essentials and continued throughout 2019, bringing crucial political changes to...

British-Sudanese actor Mohamed Elsandel is an exciting emerging talent who stars as a regular in the new Apple series Hijack.  Hijack is a seven-part thriller miniseries created by George Kay and Jim Field Smith, starring Idris Elba....

The film follows the story of a life of teenage girl living with social rules and obligations, and traditions and customs. Can she choose for herself?  Short films have always been challenging in their storytelling due...

Heroic Bodies, a new Sudanese documentary film by Sudanese filmmaker Sara Suliman, received the Audience Award at the Malmö Arab Film Festival (MAFF) 2023. MAFF is the leading and largest film festival dedicated to Arab cinema...

Goodbye Julia, the debut feature from Sudanese filmmaker Mohamed Kordofani, has been selected to screen at this year’s Cannes Film Festival 2023 or Festival de Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section, a milestone for Sudan, marking the country’s...

Heroic Bodies, a new Sudanese documentary film by Sudanese filmmaker Sara Suliman, has made its debut at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2022, one of the leading documentary festivals in the world. صور ومقتطفات من...