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Film and Panel Discussion: Sudan, Remember Us
June 18 @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
The screening will be at the University of Ottawa, Room FSS 1030, from 5-7:30pm. The film is 78 minutes long and will be followed by a short discussion with women human rights defenders and feminist allies.
Registration link is here: https://wpsn-canada.org/sudan-working-group/
The event is sponsored by the Sudan Working Group, Inter Pares, Amnesty Canada, and the Human Rights Research and Education Centre.
Trailer for Sudan, Remember Us: youtube.com/watch?v=jXHjPdOBois
Synopsis: During the Sudanese revolution in 2019, filmmaker Hind Meddeb captures a jubilant moment of defiance among young Sudanese activists in Khartoum after the overthrow of a long dictatorship, and then chronicles the military crackdown that followed.
In April 2019, the Paris-based filmmaker Hind Meddeb travelled to Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, at a jubilant moment in the country’s history. The long-time dictator Omar Al-Bashir had recently been overthrown after a 30-year regime marked by genocidal violence in Darfur. Meddeb began filming with young activists rallying for a citizen’s government by staging sit-ins, making music, reciting poetry, and painting murals. Their hopes are expressed in signs that read “Sudan free from tribalism” and “religious pluralism.”
For Meddeb, who has family roots in Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria, the movement brings to mind the aspirations of her late father: “the dream of an Arab country with its customs shaken up by a feminist revolution.” She captures demonstrations going late into the night with a celebratory atmosphere. The activists are defiant against backlash. “Bullets don’t kill,” says one young man. “What kills is people’s silence.”
Sudan, remember us enshrines this moment, but also documents the descent into war that followed. Today, Sudan is engulfed in violence between internal factions in collusion with external arms suppliers driven to gain control over the country’s wealth of minerals.