Sudan and UK / 2011 - 2020 / 71mins / Documentary / Arabic and English

This powerful documentary follows the trajectory of Sudan, from its birth in 1956 to its transmutation into two separate states in 2011. The film interweaves this very public story, featuring interviews with key political figures, with a very private one: the plight of a mixed-race Sudanese family caught across the divide as it tries to make sense of a big historical moment.

Taghreed Elsanhouri

Taghreed began her career in broadcast news and entertainment television. She is now practicing as an independent filmmaker as well as consultant and writer for the development sector. Elsanhouri is the originator and artistic director of Cultural Healing, a major Community video and cinema for social transformation and peace building program. The project was funded by the EU and implemented in Sudan from 2011 to 2013. Our Beloved Sudan the filmmaker’s third independent documentary feature premiered at the Dubai Film Festival in December 2011, and won the special Jury Silver award at the Luxor African Film Festival in February 2012. The film then went on to feature at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum, New York, "Lines of Control" exhibition, 2012. Mother Unknown, the filmmaker’s second independent feature won the Unicef Child Rights award in 2009. Television projects include a documentary commissioned by Aljazeera International for their Witness documentary strand and a series on the traditional children’s games of the Gulf for Disney Channel Dubai. Her directorial debut All about Darfur won the Award of Commendation from the American Anthropological Association in 2006 and the Chair Person’s prize at the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) 2005 and was selected at numerous film festivals including the Toronto international Film Festival 2005. A narrative feature screenplay, Khartoum Story was selected for the Berlin Talent Campus script development workshop. Learn More