Coming up next week at Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme: Cinema of Sudan: Challenges and Resilience. We’re presenting on Hussein Shariffe - hope to see some friends there.

‘Rebadging itself as for “working people” allows Labour to prioritise a managerial elite while purporting to maintain class solidarity.This shift echoes Thomas Piketty’s analysis of western democracy coalescing around a “brahmin left” and a “merchant right”, www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

KHARTOUM@Sundance: ‘Revelling in its originality, Khartoum becomes a uniquely poignant hybrid documentary about a war-torn nation and its people.’

“We have knowledge and capacity that we can put at the service of other people.” – Prof Erica Carter Read in @the-independent.com about a Sudan archive in @kingsartshums.bsky.social that was vital for ‘Khartoum’, a new documentary film premiered at Sundance. 🔽 www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Massive congratulations to Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy, Timeea M Ahmed and all at Native Voice and the Sudan Film Factory for today’s premiere of KHARTOUM at Sundance. And thanks to Maira Dutt at the Independent for covering the film and giving a shout out to our work on it at King’s.

Hot off the press from The Independent: KHARTOUM, premiering today at Sundance, with archive research from King’s College London, and a GoFundMe link for your support. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Ibrahim ‘Snoopy’ arrives in Salt Lake City ahead of the Sundance premiere of KHARTOUM to speak about Sudan now, civil rights then, Martin Luther King and more.

#Filmhistory researchers! Do apply for a stipend to visit and research in the amazing collections of The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at the Uni of Exeter, UK. Deadline 31/01/25 www.bdcmuseum.org.uk/news/call-fo...

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Film Studies at King's College London is hiring - TWO POSTS: Areas: cinemas of S Asia;cinemas of Global South (Latin America, Middle East, + Africa), New Media theory, Television (media) history, Documentary, Artists’ moving image, & Film/Media Practice as Research. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/104005-...

Coming up at the Sundance Festival: the world premiere of KHARTOUM, produced by the Sudan Film Factory with archive research contributed by our King’s College London project SUDAN MEMORY. Watch this space for the European premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February.