"Sudan, remember," poetic jousts in a country undermined by war and coups d'état

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It's a brief interlude, like a miracle, that documentary filmmaker Hind Meddeb has captured in Sudan, Remember . Young faces shine on screen, in the streets of Khartoum, capital of this state located in Northeast Africa. The dictatorship of Omar Al-Bashir has just fallen , on April 11, 2019, after nearly thirty years of reign and imposition of an Islamist regime, in this multi-religious country. Multiple layers of civil society seem to be coming together, demanding the establishment of a citizens' government. They are camped in place and will not budge, they say. Among themselves, they call themselves the "night revolutionaries."

A young woman recites a slam, under her satin veil, iridescent by the night lights; men create a haunting rhythm by hitting the metal structure of the rails with stones. More than slogans, the demonstrators take up the words of 1960s poets, Mahjoub Sharif, Muhammad Al-Fayturi, Hommeid, etc., the same ones who already dreamed of another society, when the country's independence in 1956 had led to a civil war, a coup d'état, and then a popular uprising in 1964.

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