Film of the Week
Curated by Sudan Film Factory
A Handful of Dates (2019)
Drama | 15 min.
In a mythical Sudanese village between the desert and the Nile, a young boy enjoys an idyllic childhood, taking pleasure in the fertile fruits of the land and basking by the river. But the boy's precious world begins to unravel when he learns the disturbing truth behind his family's fortune, and a certain farmer's inevitable demise. Based on Tayeb Salih’s 1957 story of the same name, included in his collection “The Wedding of Zein and other stories.”
Director: Hashim Hassan
Al-Sit (2020)