We’re happy to announce a special screening of “Khartoum”, an award-winning documentary by Anas Saeed, Snoopy Ibrahim, Rawia Al-Hag, Timeea M. Ahmed & Phil Cox.
Wednesday 18 March 2026 at 3pm John Casken Theatre, Martin Harris Building University of Manchester.
Following the screening (80 minutes): Q&A with Director/Writer Phil Cox and Animator/GFX director Phil Good.
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Synopsis:
In 2022, four Sudanese filmmakers, along with a British director-writer, began filmingthe lives and dreams of five very different citizens in Khartoum:
Street boy LOKAIN (12) and his best friend WILSON (11) embark on a mission inKhartoum’s rubbish dumps to buy two beautiful shirts.
KHADMALLAH (28) a single mum and tea vendor engages her daily clientele in gossipand cardamom coffee whilst studying math to start her dream business.
JAWAD (30) is a Sufi Rastafarian resistance volunteer who rides a motorcycle andprotests for a civilian government against the military.
Civil servant MAJDI (45) escapes office life by racing pigeons with his son.
When filming started, theSudanese were faced with a military leadership that had brought down the previous civilian government.Soon, however, war broke out between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia, displacing over ten million people. The filmmakers and participants escaped to East Africa but continued their innovative cinematic storytelling, combining animation, green screen reconstructions, and documentary ‘dreamscapes’ to tell their stories.Filmed on location with donated iPhones, the four emerging Sudanese filmmakers (Anas Saeed, Rawia Al Hag, Brahim Snoopy and Timeea M. Ahmed) capture the stark realism of one of Africa’s great cities as it is consumed by turmoil and war.
