Taghreed Al Sanhouri, Sudanese-born British filmmaker is leaving footprints for history with her documentary. Based on last years partition of Sudan, the award-winning film-maker said she wanted Sudanese to have ownership of their history and by doing so to take responsibility for what happened reported Gulf News. The 90-minute production Our Beloved Sudan features […]
Taghreed Al Sanhouri, Sudanese-born British filmmaker is leaving footprints for history with her documentary. Based on last years partition of Sudan, the award-winning film-maker said she wanted Sudanese to have ownership of their history and by doing so to take responsibility for what happened reported Gulf News.
The 90-minute production Our Beloved Sudan features Amira, a young woman with a northern father and a southern mother. It chronicles the impact of the civil war and the lead-up to independence on Amira and her ethnically-mixed family, alongside interviews with prominent political figures from the north and south.
The films main character was among the audience for the documentary which had its global premiere last year at the Dubai International Film Festival.
Growing up in Britain, Taghreed said her motivation as a film-maker came from when she was a university student. Wanting to learn about her ancestral home, she found diaries of colonial administrators but no Sudanese voices.
My latest production is not just a film but an act of historical documentation. I want, 50 years from now, if a researcher is looking for something about the partition, to find something by a Sudanese, she said before the films Khartoum screening.
The film cost about 50,000 euros (Dh238,254), much of it from her own pocket and some from the European Union.
We have funded this movie as (an) expression of our will to bring better understanding between north and south, EU ambassador Tomas Ulicny told more than 200 people who filled an outdoor terrace at Khartoums Goethe-Institut for the screening.
