A collective of Sudanese and British filmmakers collaborate with five residents from Khartoum to construct a kaleidoscopic document of identity, survival and hope.

In “Khartoum,” five protagonists and four filmmakers tell the story of a city brimming with such life that even a long and vicious war could not dim it. The filmmakers started making “Khartoum” before ...

Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy ... Khartoum walks some significant miles in the shoes of its subjects. Majdi, Khadmallah, Jawad and street children Lokain and Wilson were struggling ...

Each of these narrative threads is captured by a separate filmmaker: Lokain and Wilson by Rawia Alhag, Jawad by Timeea Mohamed Ahmed, Khadmallah by Anas Saeed and Majdi by Brahim Snoopy.

Premiering at Sundance film festival 2025, five filmmakers talk about their unusual choices in a film set around the civil ...

Khartoum is created by Sudanese filmmaker Anas Saeed. Lokain and Wilson are the youngest, who work as bottle collectors. They are joined by Majdi, a civil servant; Jawad, a resistance committee ...

Majdi, Khadmallah, Jawad, Wilson and Lokain never would have ... “It was a very difficult thing because we all lived the same situation,” Saeed said. “They were willing to open up then, telling us ...

Anas Saeed was filming Khadmalla, a mother and tea lady; Rawia Alhag followed Lokain and Wilson, two young bottle collectors; Ibrahim Snoopy filmed Majdi, a father who races pigeons; and Timeea M.

A still from Khartoum by Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy ... from different walks of life—young bottle collectors Lokain and Wilson, civil servant Majdi, tea stall owner Khadmallah, and ...