As part of Women’s Month, Casa Árabe de Madrid is organizing the screening of the feature film Goodbye Julia, nominated for an Oscar in Sudan and awarded at Cannes, on Thursday 26 March at 7 p.m. After the film there will be a colloquium. The ticket can be purchased here.
It is a personal and intimate story framed in a historical fact that divided the country. Haunted by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona, a retired singer from northern Sudan who lives in a tense marriage, tries to make amends by taking the deceased’s widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home.
Directed by Mohamed Kordofani, it is his debut feature and the first film from Sudan to be presented in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival. It is an intimate portrait of loss, repentance, forgiveness and racial discrimination, magnified and contextualized in the midst of major political conflicts in Sudan in the late 2000s.
At the end there will be a conversation with a participant from the Sudan House moderated by Karim Hauser, coordinator of Arab House Culture. Projection in Original Version Subtitled in Spanish (VOSE). Subsequent colloquium in Spanish.
