Talking About Trees
Ibrahim, Soliman, Manar and Altayeb—intensely humane idealists—have been filmmakers and friends for more than 45 years. Reunited after long years of distance and exile, they plan to revive their old dream: to make cinema a reality in Sudan. They are determined to leave their mark and inspire a love for cinema. Throughout the images they create, the ones they lost and the ones remaining only a desire, the beautiful and horrific faces of their country appear.
Suhaib Gasmelbari was born in 1979, in Sudan, where he lived until the age of 16. He attended Cinema Studies in France at the University of Paris VIII. He has written and directed several short films, both fiction and documentary. He is also a researcher and was able to find long-lost Sudanese films, and actively takes part in saving and digitizing the works of Sudanese cinema.