Miracle Chidi Dike

Sudanese film-makers bring message of hope to Sundance Festival

The makers of documentary “Khartoum” carried their national flag with pride and a sense of deep responsibility to their premiere at the influential US movie festival on Monday. Their country’s war rarely tops global news bulletins, and Sudan has never had a film at Sundance before. So the makers of documentary “Khartoum” carried their national flag with pride and a sense of deep responsibility to their premiere at the influential US movie festival on Monday. “The film is acting as an ambassador,” said Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad, co-director of the movie, which portrays five ordinary people from Sudan’s capital, all forced to flee the violence. “On a national level, everyone’s looking up at us now and telling us, ‘You guys should push forward to let the world know what’s happening in Sudan,'” he declared before the premiere.