Screening of Khartoum at Manchester Museum
18 Mar 2026
Join us for a panel discussion and a screening of a documentary exploring how the war in Sudan has impacted life in Khartoum.
Film Screening details:
Khartoum
2025 ‧ Drama ‧ 1 h 20 min
By Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy, Anas Saeed, Timeea M Ahmed, Phil Cox
Five lives, one city, a nation at war. A civil servant, a tea lady, a resistance committee volunteer and two street boys. Five stories from Sudan weave together in search of freedom through animated dreams, street revolutions and a war from the metropolis of Khartoum to escape in East Africa.
Come and experience Sudanese cinema. Voices and Visions of Sudan – A Cinematic Reflection is curated by Sudanese film curator Talal Afifi and presented by the Almas Art Foundation [almasartfoundation.org], Aya [ayafilms.org]Films [ayafilms.org], and Maona Art [maona.art]. The programme brings together films that span generations, genres and geographies to illuminate the cultural life of Sudan at a moment of historic transformation. This programme is sponsored by the BFI.
Voices and Visions of Sudan invites viewers to engage with Sudan as a living cultural landscape shaped by memory, struggle, and imagination. Through the lens of filmmakers - across generations and aesthetic modes - we encounter cinema as a form of social inquiry and cultural continuity.Voices and Visions of Sudanese Cinema is therefore not just a film series - it is a space of listening, of remembering, and of reimagining what Sudan has been, is, and can become.
This particular event at Manchester Museum is a collaboration between Voices and Visions of Sudan, the Manchester Institute of Education Anti-Racism Network, the UoM Education Society and the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity.