At School

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Country:Sudan

Director:Sarah Gubara

Program:Eastern Parallels

Year: 
2001

Duration: 
20

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. Sarah Gubara is the daughter of the renowned filmmaker, Gudallah Gubara and she has followed in her father’s footsteps as a writer and direction although with her father’s encroaching blindness, she has acted closely with him as a directorial collaborator ; as ‘his eyes’ so to speak. She is also distinguished as an athlete by holding the record for swimming the English channel.