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Sudan Remember Us: Film Screening + Followed by Discussion with activist and poet Bayadir Mohamed-Osman

We are thrilled to present Sudan, Remember Us (2024), an electrifying documentary by Hind Meddeb that bears witness to Sudan’s uprising where youthful creativity lit up the streets with music, poetry, rap, and protest slogans.

 

Date: August 11, at 7 pm ET

Address: DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema, 87 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10013

Buy tickets here

Post screening discussion with activist and poet Bayadir Mohamed-Osman.

In Partnership with Watermelon Pictures.

 

 

Sudan, Remember Us is a powerful portrait of a generation that chose poetry over silence and imagination over fear. Shajane, Maha, Muzamil, Khatab, and the voice of poet Chaikhoon form a cinematic chorus—young, politically defiant, and artistically fearless. In their twenties, they stand at the front lines of a revolution, confronting a corrupted army and paramilitary militias responsible for brutal war crimes in Darfur, Kordofan, and Blue Nile. They could have lost hope before they even began. Instead, through chants, poems, and dreams, they built a movement that helped topple a regime. Blending intimate storytelling with sweeping political urgency, Sudan, Remember Us captures the uneven struggle between the fire of militias and the unbreakable voices of the people. It’s a tribute to the power of words—and a reminder that freedom is a fight born first in the imagination.

 

 

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