Sudan, When Poems Fall Apart
Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage
Hind Meddeb / Feature Documentary / Tunisia, France, Qatar / 78 min / Original Language: Arabic / Interests: Documentary
Synopsis
Shajane, Maha, Muzamil, Rufaida, Khattab. They are Sudanese in their twenties, politically active and artistically creative. This film is a cinematic chorus, the collective portrait of a generation fighting for freedom with their words, poems and chants. Faced with a corrupted army responsible for war crimes in Darfur, Kordofan and Blue Nile, they could have lost heart before starting. Without the dream guiding them, the power of imagination and the might of poetic discourse, they would not have overthrown the former regime. I’ve been following them since I met them at the revolutionary sit-in that lasted 57 days around the Army headquarters in Khartoum. After they survived the 3rd of June 2019 massacre—when the army attacked the sit-in, killing hundreds of people in a few hours,
while resisting the military coup of October 2021, until the war started, causing death and destruction everywhere, forcing everyone to take the roads of exile.
Credits
- Director
- Hind Meddeb
- Screenwriter
- Hind Meddeb
- Producer
- Alice Ormières, Michel Zana, Abel Nahmias, Tao Guiga
- Production Company
- Echo Films, Blue Train Films, My Way
About the Director
Citizen of both sides of the Mediterranean, Hind Meddeb represents peoples and territories in their complexity. By filming alone, she creates intimacy, showing historical events through individual paths. Between 2011 and 2013, she directed ‘Tunisia Clash’ and ‘Electro Chaabi’, two feature documentaries on musical creation as a revolutionary act. Her previous film, ‘Paris Stalingrad’ was selected in numerous festivals like Cinéma du Réel, TIFF, PSIFF, CPH:DOX, received two awards at the Documentary Edge Festival NZ and was theatrically released in France in May 2021.
Contacts
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Main Contact
Michel Zana
- Company:
- Dulac distribution, Blue Train Films
- Phone:
- +33631435134
- Email:
- mzana@dulacdistribution.com
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Main Contact
Hind Meddeb
- Phone:
- +33680606840
- Email:
- hindmeddeb@yahoo.fr
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Main Contact
Alice Ormières
- Company:
- Echo films
- Phone:
- 0033646217995
- Email:
- alice.ormieres@gmail.com