The House That My Mother Built (البيت الذي بنته أمي)
Qumra Projects
/ Web Series / Sudan
In Arabic
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Synopsis
The first season of ‘The House That My Mother Built’ is set in current time Sudan. It sheds light on the continuous uprising movement and covers part of the last three-year period, which culminated in the tumbling of a 30 years of dictatorship under the Albashir regime, which spanned between 1989-2019. While the revolution’s defeats and victories were mainly captured and therefore seen from outside in the streets—this series is entirely focused on the unseen and untold stories which took place behind closed doors.
It restructures precarious, emotional and overwhelming encounters between women protesters and the inhabitants of the homes that received them as they fled from the severe violence at the hands of the security and militia men chasing them in the streets. The eight episodes of the series cover eight random encounters across Sudan before the fall in April 2019. Women of different political interests, cultural and economic backgrounds narrate their own stories. In each episode, one woman shares her personal experience about an insightful encounter that either examined her confidence and own self-awareness or shifted her perspective about the revolution and the people she is fighting for.