Talking About Trees

- 2019
- France / Sudan / Chad / Germany / Qatar
- 1h 30min
- Directed by: Suhaib Gasmelbari
- Language: Arabic
A film about Sudanese filmmakers working around the near-impossibility of making actual films in present-day Sudan. Observational rather than featuring talking heads, languidly paced but never uninteresting, it’s a portrait of the brotherhood between four men and their enduring sense of humour and belief that what they do matters.
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Gentle, observational documentary about a group of filmmakers bringing cinemagoing back to Sudan
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