Central YMCA, Grosvenor Street, Toronto, ON, Canada
Toronto Arab Film is proud to co-present Khartoum and Suddently TV at the opening night of the 23rd Annual Regent Park Film Festival (RPFF).
Khartoum (2025)
ilmed before and during Sudan’s latest counterrevolutionary war, Khartoum is a collaborative hybrid documentary that follows five residents from the capital city into exile. When the war erupts, the filmmakers and their subjects flee to Nairobi; here, they work together to convey their experiences, discovering new forms of collective expression through green screen, animation, and performance.
Filmed on location with donated iPhones, four emerging Sudanese filmmakers (Anas Saeed, Rawia Al Hag, Brahim Snoopy and Timeea M. Ahmed) capture the stark realism of one of Africa’s great cities as it is consumed by turmoil and war. A collaborative directorial effort, Khartoum is born of necessity, intimacy, and invention, offering a shared act of resistance, healing, and remembrance.
Content Advisory: Descriptions and visual depictions of neighbourhoods impacted by war and conflict; thematics of death, sexual violence, and anti-Black racism.
Suddenly TV (2022)
Toronto premiere
At a besieged protest in Khartoum, young revolutionaries create an imaginary television station to confront the violence of the regime and conjure a new Sudan.
Stay after the screening for Sudanese Cinema: Past, Present, and Future, a special talkback with Rolla Tahir, Ayat Salih, and Marwa Eltahir, and Timeea Mohamed Ahmed.
Please note that as this is a FREE event, more tickets will be sold than there are seats available. Seating is first-come-first-served, so please arrive 10 minutes before the screening to reserve your seat.
