The read
Critics rate it 26 points higher than audiences do.
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 26 points higher than audiences do.
20 audience votes
Key crew
- Suhaib GasmelbariDirector
- Suhaib GasmelbariWriter
Cast
- Ibrahim ShaddadSelf - Filmmaker
- Suliman Mohamed Ibrahim ElnourSelf - Filmmaker
- Eltayeb MahdiSelf - Filmmaker
- Manar al HiloSelf - Filmmaker
- Hana Abdelrahman SulimanSelf - SFG Member
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Themes
cinema on cinemamale friendshipfilmmakingdocumentary filmmakingcinema historyafrican cinemaportrait of a filmmakerkhartoum, sudanindigenous filmmakinglow-budget filmmakingfilm about filmmakingindependent filmmaking