Sudan cinema flickers back to life after Bashir ouster
Ahmad Faysal, logistics manager of the "Sudan Film Factory", speaks to AFP in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, on November 11, 2019. PHOTO| ASHRAF SHAZLY | AFP
Talal Afifi has worked for years to revive Sudanese cinema which has languished through decades of authoritarian rule. With the fall of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir, he sees new hope.
Bashir's Islamist-backed rule of 30 years had seen cinemas shuttered and US sanctions prevent imports of vital equipment in a country once known as a pioneer for film-making in Africa.
