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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Maira Butt

From dreams to devastation: The Sudanese filmmakers documenting Khartoum’s lost past amid war

Lokain and Wilson are eleven and twelve years old. They spend their days collecting bottles in the hope of making their life’s biggest dream come true: buying two beautiful shirts.

Twenty-seven-year-old Khadmallah is a tea vendor working on the roadsides of Khartoum after arriving from the Nuba mountains. Meanwhile, Majdi, 45, is a civil servant whose work didn’t stop even when war broke out in Sudan in April 2023, plunging the country into one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.

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