Sudan, Remember Us

Virtual Q&A with director Hind Meddeb, hosted by documentary filmmaker Jerry Rothwell

In 2019, documentary filmmaker Hind Meddeb flew to Sudan to film a sit-in protest at the Army headquarters in Khartoum. The people of Sudan were assembling, demanding reform after decades of military dictatorship.

There she met a selection of young activists that she would continue to film over the course of 4 years, from the swell of hope and accomplishment following dictator Omar al-Bashir’s fall to the oppression of the military crackdown and subsequent civil war, which today, leaves Sudan in ruins.

Standing in front of a powerful army, how could the civilian movement find the strength to persist? In conversations, in demonstrations, on walls, it emerges how the Sudanese tradition for poetry becomes a powerful tool for activism. Art, music and poetry bolster every stage of the Sudanese fight for freedom.

‘Sudan, Remember Us’ bears witness to a lost revolution and within it unearths a tribute to the power of creativity as a tool of survival and resistance.

'In giv­ing space to those who can­not and should not be erased, Sudan, Remem­ber Us becomes not just a doc­u­men­tary. It is an act of resis­tance in itself' - Leila Latif, Little White Lies

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