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.