Khartoum

Plot

Five lives, one city, the fate of a nation. A civil servant, a tea lady, a resistance committee volunteer and two street boys. Five stories from Sudan weave together in search of freedom through animated dreams, street revolutions and a war from the metropolis of Khartoum to escape in East Africa.

About Khartoum

Khartoum (Arabic: الخرطوم) is a 2025 documentary film directed by Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad and Timeea Mohamed Ahmed, with Philip Cox serving as creative director and writer. It documents the survival and quest for freedom through dreams, rebellion, and civil strife of five Khartoum residents, who were compelled to flee Sudan for other countries in East Africa due to the ongoing violence in the Sudanese civil war, which have started in 2023. The film had its world premiere in the World Documentary Competition of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on 27 January. It was also screened in the Panorama section of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival on 15 February, where it won the Peace Film Prize.

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