The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) will host a new series of Sudanese films from April 25 through 30.
The series, curated by Yasmina Tawil, examines the development of Sudan’s cinematic history from colonial times, through independence in 1956, to periods of political instability and censorship.
The BAM showcase includes screenings of various films, such as the retelling of the legendary 19th-century love story “Tajouj” by Gadalla Gubara (1977), the documentary “Khartoum Offside” by Marwa Zein (2019) which follows the journey of women who courageously challenged Islamist authorities while trying to establish Sudan’s first women’s national soccer team, and “You Will Die at 20” by Amjad Abu Alala (2019), which portrays the life of a young boy who has been told that he is destined to die young and how fate and fear determine how he lives his life. The visual poem “The Dislocation of Amber” and “Tigers Are Better-Looking,” two rare works by poet, painter, and filmmaker Hussein Shariffe, will also be shown, accompanied by the songs of Abdel-Aziz Dawoud.
For more information on the BAM’s Sudanese Cinema festival screenings, visit www.bam.org/film/2025/sudanese-cinema.