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Talking About Trees

2019 · 94 min

A quietly moving and gently humorous portrait of friendship and stubborn hope in the face of bureaucracy and censorship.

Directed by: Suhaib Gasmelbari
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Ibrahim Shaddad, Suliman Mohamed Ibrahim Elnour, Eltayeb Mahdi

Overview: 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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Directed by: Suhaib Gasmelbari
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Ibrahim Shaddad, Suliman Mohamed Ibrahim Elnour, Eltayeb Mahdi

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: art
friendship
politics
memory
freedom
Places: big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Action	1
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Humour	4
Realism	10
Romance	0
Tension	3
Darkness	5
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: documentary
Directed by: Suhaib Gasmelbari
Written by: Suhaib Gasmelbari
Starring: Ibrahim Shaddad, Suliman Mohamed Ibrahim Elnour, Eltayeb Mahdi, Manar al Hilo, Hana Abdelrahman Suliman
Cinematography: Suhaib Gasmelbari
Runtime: 94 min
Country: Chad, France, Germany, Qatar, Sudan
Languages: Arabic, English

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