2025Festival

2025 Regent Park Film Festival

Opening Night - Khartoum | خرطوم and Suddenly TV

Nov 27 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
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Location: Central YMCA | 20 Grosvenor Street

This ticket grants you access to our opening night programming, which includes Khartoum, preceded by Suddenly TV, and our industry panel, Sudanese Cinema: Past, Present and Future.

Suddenly TV

  • Year: 2022
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Country: Qatar, Sudan
  • Language: Arabic
  • Length: 18m
  • Advisory: Scenes of violence, including gunshots

Toronto premiere

At a besieged protest in Khartoum, young revolutionaries create an imaginary television station to confront the violence of the regime and conjure a new Sudan.

Directed by

Roopa Gogineni

Roopa Gogineni is a filmmaker and photographer from West Virginia, now based in Paris. For a decade she lived in Nairobi where she developed a collaborative practice, working alongside communities of resistance across the region. She is the coordinator of Night School, a network of grassroots film clubs for displaced Sudanese.

Khartoum | خرطوم

  • Year: 2025
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Country: Sudan, UK, Germany, Qatar
  • Language: Arabic
  • Length: 1h 20m
  • Advisory: Descriptions and visual depictions of neighbourhoods impacted by war and conflict; thematics of death, sexual violence, and anti-Black racism.
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Filmed before and during Sudan’s latest counterrevolutionary war, Khartoum is a collaborative hybrid documentary that follows five residents from the capital city into exile. When the war erupts, the filmmakers and their subjects flee to Nairobi; here, they work together to convey their experiences, discovering new forms of collective expression through green screen, animation, and performance.

Filmed on location with donated iPhones, four emerging Sudanese filmmakers (Anas Saeed, Rawia Al Hag, Brahim Snoopy and Timeea M. Ahmed) capture the stark realism of one of Africa’s great cities as it is consumed by turmoil and war. A collaborative directorial effort, Khartoum is born of necessity, intimacy, and invention, offering a shared act of resistance, healing, and remembrance.

Directed by

Anas Saeed

Anas Saeed is a Sudanese media maker, started working as a video journalist for the independent media house, Ayin Network. He has produced several reportage works for international media that focus on human rights issues affecting different communities across Sudan.

Rawia Alhag

Rawia Alhag is a Sudanese filmmaker and screenwriter now based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her work focuses on women’s and children’s issues, shedding light on the experiences and struggles of Sudanese people both within their communities and in the diaspora.

Ibrahim Snoopy

Ibrahim Snoopy is a Sudanese filmmaker, storyteller, and cinematographer whose work explores identity, displacement, and resilience. As a third culture child, his perspective bridges cultures and amplifies unheard voices, especially from communities affected by conflict and migration. His visual style blends Sudanese heritage with contemporary narratives, highlighting themes of social justice.

Timeea Mohamed Ahmed

Timeea Mohamed Ahmed is an award-winning Sudanese director, editor and producer working across documentary, experimental films, and digital media. Based in Canada, he is best known for Khartoum (2025), with other notable works includeing Saddari (2023). In addition to film, Timeea is actively engaged in advocacy and commercial media production.

Phil Cox

Phil is a director & writer and helms the award-winning indie film collective Native Voice Films in London UK. He has directed, written and shot over 30 films for TV and cinema.

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