Suddenly TV

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A group of young Sudanese revolutionaries create an imaginary television station. Interviewing protestors, they confront the violence of the regime and imagine a new Sudan.

In April 2019, after the fall of President Omar al-Bashir, Sudanese people from across the country make their way to the capital, Khartoum, to demand civilian rule. Protestors occupy the military headquarters, setting up tents and constructing barricades. In this liminal space, a group of young revolutionaries perform an alternate reality as a roaming television news crew. Using a cardboard box as a camera and a plastic bottle as a microphone, they playfully interview protesters and together build a vision of a new Sudan.

Content Guidance: contains graphic images of a massacre.

This film will screen as part of the programme Shorts: Resist.