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Two Films by Ibrahim Shaddad: Jagdpartie + Insan
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This event is part of the 27th NYAFF — "Streaming Rivers: The Past into the Present" Learn More
About the Director
Ibrahim Shaddad, born in Halfa, Sudan in 1945, studied filmmaking at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (at that time Academy for Film and Television of the GDR). He graduated in 1964. Over the course of his career, he has made many medium length and short films, among which are Hunting Party (1964) and The Rope (1984). Several of his projects have been banned by the various governments in Sudan. He spent years in exile in Egypt and Canada before returning to Sudan. His love of cinema is deep and his vision of art is radical. Learn More
NYAFF 2020 All-Access Pass - 8 films. The All-Access Pass is your ticket to the entire lineup for just $60 (a $96 value).
Films
Jagdpartie / Hunting Party
Ibrahim Shaddad
/ Germany / 1964
/ 42mins
Made as a graduation project at the German Academy of Film Art in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Shaddad’s seminal film is a Western-inspired treatise on racism. Shot in a forest in Brandenburg, it portrays a white mob’s hunt for a black farmworker.
Insan / Human
Ibrahim Shaddad
/ Sudan / 1994
/ 27mins
In this dialogue-less film distinguished by its innovative use of sound, Shaddad paints a dramatic and powerful portrait of the trials and alienation of a Sudanese villager who moves to a large city.
