Cinema of Sudan
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Cinema of Sudan refers to both the history and present of the making or screening of films in cinemas or film festivals, as well as to the persons involved in this form of audiovisual culture of the S
Picture and caption regarding the open air cinema Coliseum in Khartoum, Sudan, 1935
Logo of Sudan Cinema Co Ltd., c. 1940
Gadalla Gubara and his daughter Sara Gubara in the film "Viva Sara" (1984)
Alsafia Cinema in Khartoum North, 2013
Gadalla Gubara
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Gadalla Gubara was a Sudanese cameraman, film producer, director and photographer. Over five decades, he produced more than 50 documentaries and three feature films. He was a pioneer of African cinema
Cinema of Sudan
…Living with colonialism: nationalism and culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan It was precisely in the emerging visual art of documentary films that Gadalla Gubara, reputed to have been the first Sudanese cameraman, was trained for the Colonial Film Unit in Sudan. When Sudan gained independence in 1956, the new…
Gubara in 1984
Gadalla Gubara with German photographer Leni Riefenstahl in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan, before 1973