Talking About Trees (2019)

7.1/10 • 94 min • Documentary

Overview

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.

Cast

Ibrahim Shaddad

Self - Filmmaker

Suliman Mohamed Ibrahim Elnour

Self - Filmmaker

Eltayeb Mahdi

Self - Filmmaker

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