Sudanese film maker brings reality of civil war to Toronto festival
Hojooj Kuka producer of the movie Beats of the Antonov which won at the Toronto international film festival. PHOTO | COURTESY
The 39th edition of the International Film Festival of Toronto in Canada, held on September 11-16, threw up a surprise when on the final day of the festival, a Sudanese documentary film, Beats of the Antonov, by Sudanese filmmaker Hajooj Kuka, won second place in the People’s Choice Documentary category.
The title of the 65-minute film, shot in Arabic, is a play on words inspired by the sound of the Russian-made cargo planes used by government forces to bomb villages in the Nuba Mountains and the Blue Nile State. The filmmaker says that despite the film being in Arabic, he is certain that the people’s actions and their emotions articulate the narrative.
