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Talking About Trees (2019)

2019-12-18 · 1h 34m · EN
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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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Suhaib GasmelbariDirector, Writer

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Ibrahim ShaddadIbrahim ShaddadSelfSuliman IbrahimSuliman IbrahimSelfEltayeb MahdiEltayeb MahdiSelfManar Al HiloManar Al HiloSelfHana Abdelrahman SulimanHana Abdelrahman SulimanSelfEltayeb MahdiEltayeb MahdiSelf

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Male friendshipFilm reelsCinema on cinemaKhartoum, sudan

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Genre affinityDocumentaryTheme affinityMale Friendship · Film Reels · Cinema On CinemaDirector preference1439924Actor preference1226186 · 1439919 · 1439920Country preferenceTdDecade preference2010

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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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Talking About Trees has a runtime of 94 minutes.

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