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Talking About Trees

2019 · 1h 34m · Documentary · Chad, France · Rated G (IE)

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.

Written & directed by
Suhaib Gasmelbari
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Ibrahim Shaddad, Suliman Mohamed Ibrahim Elnour, Eltayeb Mahdi, Manar al Hilo
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african cinemacinema historycinema on cinemadocumentary filmmakingfilm about filmmakingfilmmakingindependent filmmakingindigenous filmmakingkhartoum, sudanlow-budget filmmakingmale friendshipportrait of a filmmaker
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