{"id":20125302,"date":"2025-12-31T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/?p=20125302"},"modified":"2025-12-31T14:02:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:02:55","slug":"khartoum-2025-the-story-of-a-city-that-will-never-be-the-same-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/khartoum-2025-the-story-of-a-city-that-will-never-be-the-same-again","title":{"rendered":"Khartoum (2025): The story of a city that will never be the same again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Interview by Abbas Muhammad Abbas for Radio Dabanga<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film Khartoum (2025)<\/a><\/em> is not just a documentary about a city, but a persistent attempt to capture a spirit that walked the streets, sat on the sidewalks, drank tea in the morning, and dreamed despite everything. The film, which was shot before the outbreak of the mid-April war, follows the lives of five characters from different social and educational backgrounds. It was shown at several international festivals, traveling from the USA to Europe, and finally to Doha, where it had its first screening in the Arab world.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the heart of this work stands Sudanese film maker Rawia Alhag<\/a>, one of the directors, alongside Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad<\/a>, Timeea Mohamed Ahmed<\/a>, Philip Cox<\/a>, and Anas Saeed<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She believes that Khartoum<\/em> was not merely a documentary, but an attempt to tell the truth. In an interview with Radio Dabanga, Alhag says that the city is recovering, but it will never be the same again. As she puts it, Sudanese people \u201ccarry within them the memory of a city,\u201d but memory alone cannot bring back the streets or the friends as they once were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She explains that for them as filmmakers, the film was a voice for the Sudanese to the world, a message saying that what is happening inside is not a civil war in the traditional sense, but a conflict driven by external parties with multiple agendas, while the Sudanese citizen remains the biggest loser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our guest doesn\u2019t separate the film\u2019s content from the reality in which it was made. She points out that the challenges facing the Sudanese film industry existed even before the war, especially regarding filming in public spaces. She says: \u201cGetting to the real scene, capturing people\u2019s natural reactions in the street, was extremely difficult, even with permits.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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