Talking About Trees
Sudan • 2019
Director
Synopsis
Filmmakers Ibrahim, Suliman, Eltayeb and Manar, close friends for many years, left their motherland in the sixties and seventies to study film abroad and founded the Sudanese Film Group in 1989. After years of distance and exile, they are reunited, hoping to finally make their old dream come true: to bring back cinema to Sudan by reopening the Halfaia Cinema, a dilapidated theater in Khartoum.
Synopsis
Filmmakers Ibrahim, Suliman, Eltayeb and Manar, close friends for many years, left their motherland in the sixties and seventies to study film abroad and founded the Sudanese Film Group in 1989. After years of distance and exile, they are reunited, hoping to finally make their old dream come true: to bring back cinema to Sudan by reopening the Halfaia Cinema, a dilapidated theater in Khartoum.
Credits
Crew
DirectorSuhaib Gasmelbari
WriterSuhaib Gasmelbari
CinematographerSuhaib Gasmelbari
EditorNelly Quettier, Gladys Joujou
ProducerMarie Balducchi
Cast
Ibrahim Shaddadas Self - Filmmaker
Suliman Mohamed Ibrahim Elnouras Self - Filmmaker
Eltayeb Mahdias Self - Filmmaker
Manar al Hiloas Self - Filmmaker