{"id":210176,"date":"2025-06-24T10:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T10:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/210176\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T10:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T10:52:12","slug":"sudan-remember-us-review-vividness-and-vibrancy-in-intense-account-of-khartoum-uprising-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/210176\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan, Remember Us review \u2013 vividness and vibrancy in intense account of Khartoum uprising | Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Franco-Tunisian-Moroccan film-maker Hind Meddeb is based in Paris but it was her on-the-spot experience in Khartoum in 2019 of the Sudanese uprising against the reactionary 30-year rule of president Omar al-Bashir which has led to this intensely engaged and sympathetic documentary study. The film immerses itself in the world of the protesters \u2013 particularly the young and female protesters \u2013 a whole generation energised and brought together by the insurgent movement; their passion was complicated and intensified by the fact that the revolution, at least at first, only brought in a \u201cTransitional Military Council\u201d or TMC, which did not seem in any great hurry to transition to democratic civilian rule. In fact, it carried out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jun\/11\/sudan-troops-protesters-attack-sit-in-rape-khartoum-doctors-report\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a grotesque massacre against people at a sit-in in June 2019<\/a>, resulting in 127 people dead and 70 cases of rape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Meddeb finds among the protesters a vivid, vibrant artistic movement: an oral culture of music, poetry and rap which flourishes on the streets. There is also a kind of subversive, surrealist energy: the camera finds a mock traffic roadworks sign reading: \u201cSorry for the Delay \u2013 Uprooting a Regime\u201d. The most amazing performances from both women and men are witnessed, as well as a kind of soixante-huitard culture of slogans and maxims; young women hold up signs and prose-poems.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Above all, the protesters are suspicious of theocracy and the prevalence of a clerical class who have a great love of bullying the populace; one woman remembers a preacher who insisted on the virtues of poverty for everyone else while owning a sleek four-wheel drive. \u201cThe people demand justice for the dead!\u201d declaims one banner; this is a movement which is passionately aware of its fallen comrades, betrayed by those who were ushered into power by their sacrifice and courage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/sudan\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sudan<\/a>, Remember Us is in UK cinemas from 27 June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Franco-Tunisian-Moroccan film-maker Hind Meddeb is based in Paris but it was her on-the-spot experience in Khartoum in 2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-210176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114737967552619511","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}