The short film, "The Dog's Dogs", directed by directors Saddam Seddik and Yasser Fayez, won the "Black Elephant" award from the sixth independent Sudan Film Festival, which ended yesterday evening.
The film deals with the story of a Sudanese man, Darwish, married to Dutch, Nora after 26 years in Europe, and after his daughter reaches the age of 18, a potential lover appears in the daughter’s life. And between his wife after the daughter's birthday party.
The closing ceremony of the festival was organized in the capital, Khartoum, in the presence of a number of filmmakers from inside and outside Sudan, the Minister of Culture and Information Faisal Muhammad Salih, and the Director of Radio and Television Rashid Saeed. Ten Sudanese films competed in the official competition, and the jury awarded its special prize for the movie "Journey to Kenya" directed by Ibrahim Ahmed and his fame "Snoopy". The film revolves around a team’s journey inside a small edge, on its way from Khartoum to Kenya, through Ethiopia, to catch a championship there.
For his part, the festival's president, Talal Afifi, said in the closing speech: “Cinema in Sudan is an art of resistance and linked to people's memory. It had beginnings a long time ago, but the economic and political circumstances that interfered negatively prevented there to be wealth in terms of production or friction. "What has lost the cinema and its industry is a lot of growth potential." He added: «Today we find ourselves in front of new beginnings whose lamps are lit by Suhaib Qasim al-Bari, Amjad Abu Al-Ela, Marwa Zain and Hajj Koca, strong beginnings that derive their resolve from rebellion, anger, aspiration and high artistic spirit. We have honored these people, during the past, with the appreciation and interest they have received throughout the world. ”
The sixth session of the Sudan Independent Film Festival presented a week for about 80 films between narrators and documentaries from 25 countries in nine locations, including the German Goethe Institute, the British Council, the French Cultural Center, the Heritage House, the Coptic Club, and the Sudan Foundation Film Factory.
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A film between fiction and documentary from 25 countries, presented by the festival in several locations.
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Sudanese business competed in the official competition, and was awarded a special prize for the film "A Journey to Kenya".
Cinema in Sudan is an art resistive and linked to people's memories, and it had beginnings long ago.