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.

• cinema on cinema
• male friendship
• filmmaking
• documentary filmmaking
• cinema history
• african cinema
• portrait of a filmmaker
• khartoum, sudan
• indigenous filmmaking
• low-budget filmmaking
• film about filmmaking
• independent filmmaking