Screening of the documentary ‘Sudan, Remember Us’, followed by a discussion on Sudan's evolution to today with GDI's Hamid Khalafallah.
ABOUT
The Humanitarian & Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) invites you to an event to watch the award-winning documentary ‘Sudan, Remember Us’ written and directed by Hind Meddeb (synopsis below), and join a discussion with Hamid Khalafallah who will connect the 2019 revolution to the current situation in Sudan. Hamid is a Sudanese researcher and policy analyst, and currently a PhD candidate at the University of Manchester.
This event is free and public. We welcome everyone in and out of the University: members of the University, staff and students, and of the community of Manchester.
Hamid Khalafallah is a researcher, policy analyst and development practitioner. He is currently a PhD researcher at the Global Development Institute (GDI) of the University of Manchester, researching grassroots movements and political transitions in Africa. Before that, Hamid worked for various international organisations in Sudan, focusing on governance and development issues.
FILM SYNOPOSIS
In 2019, documentary filmmaker Hind Meddab flew to Sudan to film a sit-in protest at the Army headquarters in Khartoum. The people of Sudan were assembling, demanding reform after decades of military dictatorship. There she met a selection of young activists that she would continue to film over the course of 4 years, from the swell of hope and accomplishment following dictator Omar al-Bashir’s fall to the oppression of the military crackdown and subsequent civil war, which today, leaves Sudan in ruins.
Standing in front of a powerful army, how could the civilian movement find the strength to persist? In conversations, in demonstrations, on walls, it emerges how the Sudanese tradition for poetry becomes a powerful tool for activism. Art, music and poetry bolster every stage of the Sudanese fight for freedom. ‘Sudan, Remember Us’ bears witness to a lost revolution and within it unearths a tribute to the power of creativity as a tool of survival and resistance.
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