Please continue reading the exciting March news of Khartoum Offside, female directed documentary from Sudan premiered in around 50 festivals, just to mention Berlinale, CPH:DOX, Sheffield Doc Fest, Hot Docs, Visions du Reel, IDFA, JCC Carthage, Cairo, IDFA. Film holds 5 international awards.
Recently Marwa Zein, director & producer was tagged by BBC as one of the world´s most fearless filmmakers!
The film follows young women from Khartoum that cannot play football professionally because of the ban imposed by the Islamic government. One year after the premiere, the situation changed and Women Football teams in Sudan are officially recognised.
Screenings, Releases & TV Broadcast in 4 Continents in March
- Domestic distribution: ORE production released the film in Sudan – Khartoum.
- Moroccan elease of the film with ARMCDH that brings the film to 5 cities.
- TV premiere for Russian speaking audience at Current Time TV on International Women´s Day
- Festival screenings in Finland – Tampere Film Festival, Czech Republic – One World, Nepal – Human Rights FF (postponed due to the virus), Palestine – Filmlab, Scotland – GRAMNET, Norway – Arabisk FF Bergen, USA – Washington DC Area – New African FF, France – Rencontres d´Aflam