In face of a brutal war back home, Rafa Renas tells her people’s story through film
In Sudan's capital, Khartoum, an anonymous protester dressed as Spider-Man joins the hundreds of thousands of protesters desperate to protect their fragile civilian government after the military coup in October 2021.
A boy, barely in his teens jumps out of a thicket, a big gun trained on the driver. He raises his free arm, orders the vehicle to stop. The driver stops, dust kicking out from under the tyres in the hot sun.
More cars are lined up behind the boy’s self-styled check point. “Are you working with the military?” he asks in Arabic. The driver answers in the negative. “Are you SAF?” the young man persists in reference to the Sudan Armed Forces.
