"All About Darfur" film ! !
| By Eseta Schaaf - Feb 15th, 2007 at 1:33 am EST |
www.allaboutdarfur.com
I recently rented a film from the Salt Lake City Public Library called: "All About Darfur."
Filmmaker Taghreed Elsanhouri was inspired to travel from Britain to her homeland Sudan, to tell the story via her lens... To Elsanhouri, she had an advantage to tell such a story because often times, the public knows about the conflict in Darfur from Western point of views, which often do not communicate the COMPLEXITY of the issue!
Elsanhouri who is from the North remembers a Sudan that wasn't as ethnically contentious as it is today. She is considered a 'majority' in Sudan, as her skin is lighter, and would be considered 'Arab-African'... After living in Britain, where she understood what racial discrimination was, she returned to Sudan sharing somewhat the experiences of marginalization and indifference of what many black Darfuris face daily. She interviews and talks with ordinary Sudanese in Khartoum, and other regions about their ideas and opinions of the causations and how to fix the conflict.
There were varieties of opinion, and almost all could attest to how DEEPLY HELD NOTIONS OF PREJUDICES could burst into a violent war of ethnic cleansing. Elsanhouri interviewed university professors, intellectuals, genocide survivors, market goers, and activists, amongst many. Elsanhouri investigates how notions of ethnicity and race are constructed in Sudan. While visiting a local elementary school, the teacher divided up the students to reenact the battles which led to the formation of Sudan---lighter skinned students embodied the Turks and Arabs, while darker skinned ones represented the vanquished Africans.
Ultimately, the film shows audiences how such a MULTICULTURAL AND MULTI-ETHNIC society as Sudan is battling for limited natural resources!!
I recently rented a film from the Salt Lake City Public Library called: "All About Darfur."
Filmmaker Taghreed Elsanhouri was inspired to travel from Britain to her homeland Sudan, to tell the story via her lens... To Elsanhouri, she had an advantage to tell such a story because often times, the public knows about the conflict in Darfur from Western point of views, which often do not communicate the COMPLEXITY of the issue!
Elsanhouri who is from the North remembers a Sudan that wasn't as ethnically contentious as it is today. She is considered a 'majority' in Sudan, as her skin is lighter, and would be considered 'Arab-African'... After living in Britain, where she understood what racial discrimination was, she returned to Sudan sharing somewhat the experiences of marginalization and indifference of what many black Darfuris face daily. She interviews and talks with ordinary Sudanese in Khartoum, and other regions about their ideas and opinions of the causations and how to fix the conflict.
There were varieties of opinion, and almost all could attest to how DEEPLY HELD NOTIONS OF PREJUDICES could burst into a violent war of ethnic cleansing. Elsanhouri interviewed university professors, intellectuals, genocide survivors, market goers, and activists, amongst many. Elsanhouri investigates how notions of ethnicity and race are constructed in Sudan. While visiting a local elementary school, the teacher divided up the students to reenact the battles which led to the formation of Sudan---lighter skinned students embodied the Turks and Arabs, while darker skinned ones represented the vanquished Africans.
Ultimately, the film shows audiences how such a MULTICULTURAL AND MULTI-ETHNIC society as Sudan is battling for limited natural resources!!
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