Documentary Khartoum (D: Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad, Timeea Mohamed Ahmed, Phil Cox; Sudan, UK, DE, Qatar 2025)
2025
The documentary Khartoum (2025) focuses on the Sudanese civil war and its impact on people and the culture of remembrance. Originally planned as a portrait of everyday life in Khartoum, the project became a document of flight and displacement as a result of the war from 2023 onwards. The directors, themselves affected by the conflict, developed a hybrid film language from archive material, animations and reconstructed scenes while in exile. The focus is on five protagonists from different social milieus whose stories reflect the destruction as well as the resilience of Sudanese society. The film sees itself as a cinematic memorial that preserves individual experiences and keeps Khartoum’s cultural memory alive despite war and media invisibility.
The Jutta Vogel Foundation supports FilmInitativ Köln e.V. 2024, the largest and oldest festival in Germany for contemporary African cinema. In the presence of director Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad, the documentary “Khartoum – Five Lives, One City, The Fate of a Nation” (2025), which won the Peace Film Award at the Berlinale, was shown at the Afrika Film Festival Cologne and won the Audience Award.
