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Rewarded with the price of the best documentary at the Berlin festival, Talking about trees, which is released this Wednesday in theaters , follows the journey of four film buffs who decided to renovate an old cinema in Khartoum.
They are four grandpas sitting on a bench. Four very harmless retirees, but who have given themselves a mission: to rekindle the flame of cinema in Sudan, by organizing traveling screenings. A mission that is not without risk in a country subject to Sharia law. Ibrahim, Suleiman, Manar and Altayeb are the heroes of Suhaib Gasmelbari's film. The director explains how the meeting with his characters took place.
“ The first time I came to Khartoum, this is where the idea of making the film was born. We arrived very late because the car had broken down. They installed their fabric screen. And directly like in a film, there was a sandstorm. But nobody moved, they stayed behind the screen and they watched the film with the sand in their eyes. The wind swelled the fabric screen. For me, it was already an epic image of this reality. "
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The documentary shows their passion still intact despite the years of exile, censorship and incessant harassment. Suhaib Gasmelbari has put themselves at their service. And it is a joy to see the enthusiasm of the spectators: a contagious happiness, doubled by the pure joy of transmitting from these four Don Quixote of the seventh art.