Talking About Trees

Talking About Trees

94 mins | Documentary | Dec. 18, 2019

Filmmakers Ibrahim, Suliman, Eltayeb and Manar, close friends for many years, left their motherland in the sixties and seventies to study film abroad and founded the Sudanese Film Group in 1989. After years of distance and exile, they are reunited, hoping to finally make their old dream come true: to bring back cinema to Sudan by reopening the Halfaia Cinema, a dilapidated theater in Khartoum.

Talking About Trees

94 mins | Documentary | Dec. 18, 2019

Talking About Trees
Filmmakers Ibrahim, Suliman, Eltayeb and Manar, close friends for many years, left their motherland in the sixties and seventies to study film abroad and founded the Sudanese Film Group in 1989. After years of distance and exile, they are reunited, hoping to finally make their old dream come true: to bring back cinema to Sudan by reopening the Halfaia Cinema, a dilapidated theater in Khartoum.
IMDb rating 7.4
Producers Agat Films & Cie, Doha Film Institute, Goi-Goi Productions, Made In Germany Filmproduktion, SFG, Vidéo de Poche
Original title Talking About Trees
Directors Rayan Suliman, Hana Abdelrahman Suliman, Suhaib Gasmelbari
Writers Suhaib Gasmelbari

Cast

Ibrahim Shaddad

as Self - Filmmaker

Suliman Mohamed Ibrahim Elnour

as Self - Filmmaker

Eltayeb Mahdi

as Self - Filmmaker

Manar al Hilo

as Self - Filmmaker

Hana Abdelrahman Suliman

as Self - SFG Member