Nuba Conversations is a 2000 documentary and ethnographic film directed by Arthur Howes.
| Nuba Conversations | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Arthur Howes |
| Written by | Arthur Howes |
| Produced by | Arthur Howes |
| Edited by | Arthur Howes |
| Distributed by | Marfilmes |
Release date |
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Running time | 56 minutes |
| Countries | Sudan United Kingdom |
| Language | Nuba |
| Budget | £25,000 |
Synopsis edit
Ten years after shooting Kafi's Story British filmmaker Arthur Howes reentered in Sudan clandestinely to find out what had happened to the Nuba peoples of Torogi.
He found Jihad faces everywhere. For example, a remarkable television program, Fields of Sacrifice, celebrates that week's casualties in the war against the Nuba and features family members thanking Allah for having taken their sons and brothers as martyrs.
Much of the Nuba population was enrolled by the rebel movement Sudan People's Liberation Army during the Second Sudanese Civil War. Others have left their home places and live now in Refugee camp.
Arthur Howes takes his previous documentary Kafi's Story and he shows it to some Nuba people living in one of these refugee camps in Kenya.
Later on, in 2002, Nuba Conversations was presented in the United Nations headquarters in Nairobi to the parts involved in the warfare. And it is believed that it has strongly contributed to speed up the peace process.[1]
Festivals edit
- Document 2 - International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, U.K. (2004)
- Venice Film Festival, Italy (2000)
- Pan-African Film Festival, U.S.A.(2000)
- Paris Documentary Film Festival, France (2000)
- Festival Internacional de Documentários, Brazil
See also edit
- Sri Lanka's Killing Fields, a 2011 documentary film.
- Eyes and Ears Of God – Video surveillance of Sudan, a 2012 documentary
- Darfur Now, a 2007 documentary
References edit
Sources edit
- Loizos, Peter, Sudanese Engagements: Three Films by Arthur Howes (1950–2004), Routledge, 2006
External links edit
- Nuba Conversations at IMDb
- Arthur Howes at IMDb
- Nuba Conversations in California Newsreel
- Nuba Conversations in Link TV
- "Nuba Conversations" in the New Internationalist
- History of Cinema in Sudan
- Article about Arthur Howes in The Guardian
- Good news for the Nuba? in Survival International article of 28 February 2002
- Nuba Survival Foundation
- Landmine Monitor Report 2001 about Landmines in Sudan (p. 225) available in The Monitor
