Jesus College Oxford invites you to join us for a special screening of the powerful documentary Sudan, Remember Us (Sudan, Remember Us — T A P E), as part of our programme to mark Black History Month 2025.
Sudan, Remember Us (2024), written and directed by Hind Meddeb, is an important tribute to the courage of Sudanese activists in the face of an authoritarian regime and to the power of poetry, art and music in bolstering the fight for freedom.
The screening will take place from 19:30-21.00 in our Digital Hub, with complimentary teas and coffees served from 19.00. All costs are covered by Jesus College, with proceeds going directly to the filmmakers. We will also be collecting optional donations for Unicef’s Sudan Fund during the evening.
Suitable for 18+
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In 2019, documentary filmmaker Hind Meddab flew to Sudan to film a sit-in protest at the Army headquarters in Khartoum. The people of Sudan were assembling, demanding reform after decades of military dictatorship. There she met a selection of young activists that she would continue to film over the course of 4 years, from the swell of hope and accomplishment following dictator Omar al-Bashir’s fall to the oppression of the military crackdown and subsequent civil war, which today, leaves Sudan in ruins.
Standing in front of a powerful army, how could the civilian movement find the strength to persist? In conversations, in demonstrations, on walls, it emerges how the Sudanese tradition for poetry becomes a powerful tool for activism. Art, music and poetry bolster every stage of the Sudanese fight for freedom. ‘Sudan, Remember Us’ bears witness to a lost revolution and within it unearths a tribute to the power of creativity as a tool of survival and resistance.
