Cinema in Sudan: Conversations with Gadalla Gubara
Synopsis
Through his oeuvre, Gadalla reveals to us a Sudan both mysterious and misunderstood. Despite censorship and lack of financial support over sixty years, he has produced cinema that is independent and unique in a country where freedom of expression is a rare luxury.
The film Conversations with Gadalla Gubara retraces the struggle of a man who received the 2006 Award for Excellence for his career at the Africa Academy Awards, Nigeria.
Gadalla was a person with a unique character: a Sudanese of great charm, caustic in his criticism of film-making, a humorist of refinement whose blindness has not tempered the rebel in him. He was, moreover, one of the last great figures of African cinema still with us. He knew the ending of the colonial era, saw the pomp and the disillusion, watched as his country sank into the depths of obscurantism.
In 1969, Gadalla and his friends, Ousmane Sembene, Trinté Bassori, Mustapha Alassane came up with a revolutionary idea: FESPACO.
Details
- Year
- 2011
- Type of film
- Features
- Running time
- 52 mins
- Format
- MiniDV
- Director
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Frederique Cifuentes Morgan 1st Feature
- Producer
- Sias Wilson
- Editor
- Peter Lewis
- Director of Photography
- Frederique Cifuentes Morgan
- Sound
- Sidi Moctar
- Music
- Sheick Habeel, Tim Puckett
- Principal cast
- Gadalla Gubara
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