Country:Sudan

Director:Peter Jordan

Program:World Parallel

Summary:

Filmed inside Sudan, in a Darfur displacement camp and in a remote village in the Nuba Mountains, A Different Kind of Gun tells the harrowing story of children caught in the crossfire of Sudan's two wars. Told in children's voices and filmed, in part, by their own eyes, the film takes us into the hearts of the country's youngest generation, who will decide one day whether to avenge their families deaths or to forgive them.

Country:Sudan

Director:Sarah Gubara

Program:Eastern Parallels

Summary:

This is a short documentary about the challenges facing the institution of education in Sudan. We look at the efforts at the broad based efforts to bring a general education to the children of Sudan, with a particular emphasis on the strategies utilized to bring a larger understanding of health issues and social problems.

Country:Sudan

Director:Sarah Gubara

Program:Eastern Parallels

Summary:

This film uses a strong metaphor which is highly suggestive of the circumstances of Gudallah Gubara himself with reference to Gubara’s interest in bringing things to light socially as well as through the practice of film compounded by Gubara’s ensuing blindness. But Sarah Gubara centers her film on the efforts of a self driven activist who attempts to rally people in the fight for freedom. The activisit discovers that the more freedom you attempt to claim, the more assuredly it shall be taken away from you.

Country:Sudan

Director:Sarah Gubara

Program:Eastern Parallels

Summary:

The most recent work of Sarah Gubara before assisting her father on his large scale production of The Miserable was this tragic drama concerning a very poor man who marries a wealthy woman and the disharmony that is generated by mutual misunderstandings that are difficult to disentangle. The man is soon engulfed in a tidal wave of jealousy that drives him to the brink of insanity and murder. The film depicts a theme common to the elder Gubara’s work in which certain strict social definitions finally contribute to a loss of the senses and finally deranged exile.

Country:Sudan

Director:Gudallah Gubara

Program:Eastern Parallels

Summary:

The elder filmmaker makes a strong statement against the practices of circumcision as they performed around Africa and particularly Sudan. The film is typical of the later Gubara films which are determined to take a stand against the tyrranies that are still keeping people down. Gubara has stated that circumcision is ‘Nothing more than a bad habit.’

Country:Sudan

Director:Gudallah Gubara

Program:Eastern Parallels

Summary:

We reprise Gubara’s most well known and acclaimed feature film. Tajoog is the beautiful cousin of a young tribal man who is deeply in love with her. He publically declares his love for her in a song.  The traditions of the tribe denounce such an act and as a consequence his uncle refuses his proposal to marry her. But after the young man departs and declares his repentance the marriage is finally allowed. But in the meantime another man has staked his interest in Tajoog which drives the young man to jealousy.

Country:Sudan

Director:Gudallah Gubara

Program:Eastern Parallels

Summary:

For his first feature film in many years, the legendary filmmaker from Sudan has chosen to adapt Victor Hugo’s classic novel Les Miserables for an African audience in the Arab language. The esteemed actor Gamal Hassan assumes the character of Jean Valjean from who is a man driven to crime and nerfarious activities after circumstances have driven him in this direction. However, with the help of others he manages an incredible transformation. Gubara clearly saw this narrative as a significant parable concerning the will to change perceived as crucial for the future of Sudan.