John Bleasdale Guest Contributor Mohamed Subahi’s documentary “Madaniya” captures an uprising that would lead to the toppling of Omar Al-Bashir’s 30-year rule in Sudan.
These months of protest are told through the perspectives of participants in a sit-in organized in front of the Central Command of the Army in Khartoum. “I choose my characters as normal people,” Subahi tells Variety. “They are normal, like you can find everywhere in the street.
They are not like political people. They are all from different neighborhoods and different backgrounds, but they all have the same demand and the same dream.
They might disagree about how the revolution goes but they all want freedom.” Esra is a young artist, involved in the painting of a mural.
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