120 mins |
Rated
UC15
Directed by Mohamed Kordofani
Starring Ger Duany, Eiman Yousif, Siran Riak, Nazar Goma, Issraa Elkogali Häggström
NT Premiere. Winner of the Un Certain Regard - Freedom Prize for Director Mohamed Kordofani.
A stunning film from Sudan, set before south Sudanese independence.
Goodbye Julia tells the story of two women who represent the complicated relationship and differences between northern and southern Sudanese communities. It takes place in Khartoum during the last years before South Sudanese independence in 2011. Mona, an upper-middle-class former popular singer from the North, who lives with her husband Akram, seeks to attenuate her feelings of guilt for causing the death of a Southern man by employing Julia, his unsuspecting widow, as her maid
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NT Premiere. Winner of the Un Certain Regard - Freedom Prize for Director Mohamed Kordofani.
A stunning film from Sudan, set before south Sudanese independence.
Goodbye Julia tells the story of two women who represent the complicated relationship and differences between northern and southern Sudanese communities. It takes place in Khartoum during the last years before South Sudanese independence in 2011. Mona, an upper-middle-class former popular singer from the North, who lives with her husband Akram, seeks to attenuate her feelings of guilt for causing the death of a Southern man by employing Julia, his unsuspecting widow, as her maid