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Talking About Trees
Talking About Trees

Talking About Trees

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Documentary

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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.

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

94 mins

Rating

7/10

Release Date

18 December 2019

Country

Chad

Cast

Ibrahim Shaddad

Ibrahim Shaddad

Self - Filmmaker

Suliman Mohamed Ibrahim Elnour

Suliman Mohamed Ibrahim Elnour

Self - Filmmaker

Eltayeb Mahdi

Eltayeb Mahdi

Self - Filmmaker

Manar al Hilo

Manar al Hilo

Self - Filmmaker

Hana Abdelrahman Suliman

Hana Abdelrahman Suliman

Self - SFG Member

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