Sudan / 2013 / 11mins / Documentary / Arabic

Tayba is an intimate portrait of the filmmaker’s aunt as she, from the repose of old age, recollects how she overcame the stigma of divorce and forged an independent life as a woman alone.

Part of the Cultural Healing project, based on a concept developed by British-Sudanese filmmaker Taghreed Elsanhouri, a creative peace-building project in Sudan that trained journalism students, civil society representatives and young people to make short documentary films which expressed their cultures and traditions.

Maha Abdalmoniem

Maha Abdalmoniem is a filmmaker from Sudan. Abdalaziem's short documentary Tayba was a result of participating in the The Cultural Healing workshop, a concept developed by British-Sudanese filmmaker Taghreed Elsanhouri, a creative peace-building project in Sudan that trained journalism students, civil society representatives and young people to make short documentary films which expressed their cultures and traditions. A quote from the filmmaker: "The Cultural Healing project offered us a unique and ingenious training opportunity. As a professional writer I especially appreciated learning how to tell a story through the visual medium of video. The skills I acquired have enabled me to transform my creative ideas into reality. The artist in Sudan is like a spot of light. Despite living through the pressures of a difficult and constrained reality the artist must nevertheless reach out with his ideas." Learn More