Mona is a retired singer in a tense marriage in Northern Sudan. Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, she tries to make amends by taking in the dead man\u2019s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel. Mona can\u2019t confess her transgressions to Julia, so she tries to adjust to a new status quo — but the country’s turmoil is going to find its way into her home and make her come face to face with her sins \u2026 The Cineuropa review said: “Mohamed Kordofani offers up wonderful snapshots, overviews and explanations of all the nuances of the acute Sudanese situation of the time\u201d. Recommended. Arabic with English subtitles.<\/p>\n
This film screens in the sixth edition of the Manarat\u2019s CinemaMAS film festival, curated this time by filmmaker and visual artist Scandar Copti \u2013 head of the Film and New Media program at NYU Abu Dhabi from 2014 to 2017. Currently, he is still teaching filmmaking at NYUAD while working on an upcoming feature film.<\/p>\n
Individual films on weekdays are AED 30 per head, weekends are AED 50 per day, and there\u2019s an all-inclusive ticket at AED 150.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"