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Sudan cinema takes inspiration from revolution

Saturday, 23 Jan 2021 06:29 PM MYT In this file photo taken on December 22, 2014, Sudanese men walk past the Palace of Youth and Children in Omdurman, one of the three functioning cinemas left in the capital Khartoum. — AFP pic Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. CAIRO, Jan 23 — Sudanese filmmakers who celebrated the end of stifling restrictions following the ouster of autocrat Omar al-Bashir have won multiple international awards but are yet to enjoy the same recognition at home. Cinema languished in the North African country through three d...

New Movies to Watch This Week: ‘No Man’s Land,’ ‘The White Tiger,’ International Oscar Submissions Variety 1/22/2021 With the Sundance Film Festival less than a week away (and available to anyone in the U.S. willing to buy tickets to a COVID-safe 2021 virtual edition), late January sees more streaming options than virtually any week since the pandemic began. That doesn’t necessarily mean big movies for home viewers, but at least it offers a raft of new options. For those seeking diversion with familiar faces, genre movies such as “Brothers by Blood” (featuring Matthias Schoe...

Set in a remote Sudanese village where religion and prophecy are valuable currencies, You Will Die at Twenty beautifully examines misguided notions of faith. After giving birth to her first baby, Sakina (Islam Mubarak) visits the local Sheikh for a formal blessing. Instead of hearing promising words about the child’s bright future, she receives a dire omen: the boy will die on his 20 th birthday.  Shockwaves of gossip spread as the entire village mints this premonition as tragic inevitability. Sensing the coming stress of their cursed family situation, her weak husband decides to leave an...

You are using an older browser version. Please use a supported version for the best MSN experience. Review: Amjad Abu Alala's 'You Will Die at 20' is unlike anything you will see this year Carlos Aguilar © (Film Movement) Islam Mubarak in the movie "You Will Die at Twenty." (Film Movement) Sentenced to a brief existence as an infant, the juvenile in writer-director Amjad Abu Alala’s dazzling debut “You Will Die at 20,” the first-ever Sudanese Oscar entry for international feature film, holds little agency over how his scarce days on this mortal plane are utilized. Fr...