Khartoum

Khartoum (2025)

Five lives, one city, the fate of a nation. 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.

Date of release
2025-01-27
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 22m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad, Timeea Mohamed Ahmed, Philip Cox

Casting

Interesting facts

Khartoum is a 2025 documentary film directed by Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad and Timeea Mohamed Ahmed, with Philip Cox serving as creative director and writer. It documents the survival and quest for freedom through dreams, rebellion, and civil strife of five Khartoum residents, who were compelled to flee Sudan for other countries in East Africa due to the ongoing violence in the Sudanese civil war, which have started in 2023.

Production

Directed by four Sudanese filmmakers, Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy and Timeea M. Ahmed, with the creative director and writer Phil Cox, the film was produced by Native Voice Films and Sudan Film Factory in association with BBC Storyville, Ayin Network, Gisa Productions and Light Echo Pictures.

Filming began in 2022, documenting the lives and dreams of five very different citizens in Khartoum. In April 2023, the Sudan civil war broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAR) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia. Since then, the ongoing war has displaced over ten million people, including filmmakers and the film's main characters.

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