Goodbye Julia… Reconciliation In Chaos Country
Report – Magda Hassan
Sudanese film Good bye Julia has received 15 awards since its debut, the most recent of which was four awards during the month. It won the Freedom Award at Cannes Film Festival, the Jury Award the Audience Award and the Women’s Jury Award ,!addition to receiving nominations for Best African Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best African Actress (Iman Youssef and Siran Riak).
success:
The successes and performances of “Goodbye Julia” by director Mohamed Kordofani continue as part of the “Sharjah Film Platform” screenings, the annual cinematic event organized by the Sharjah Arts Foundation, and its 6th session takes place from 8 to 17 December.
Sudan nominated the film “Goodbye, Julia” to compete for an Oscar after its international screening in the “Certain Regard” competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
Window film
Goodbye Julia turned from a successful festival film to a popular film that occupied the ticket windows in cinemas due to the acceptance it found, especially since it starts from a realistic story where it tells
The aggressive and complex relationship between northern and southern Sudan.
The film focused in detail on the events that preceded the southern secession referendum in 2011
According to critics, the director chose gloomy colors to express the dark events
According to critics, the film raises a series of questions that seemed unanswerable for a long time, but director Muhammad Al-Kordfani was able to answer them
The film, subtitled in Arabic and English, was shown in Manial Cinema and San Stefano Cinema in Egypt, for the first time in Cannes 2023. The film is a political and feminist drama that tells a reality.
*Realistic technique
Perhaps the recent Khartoum war and the search for reconciliation for a country in chaos for 7 months made the Sudanese issue not leave the spotlight. And what were the events that increased the spotlight on the film, Mustafa Al-Naim, head of the Youth Cinema Group, confirmed his astonishment at the coherence of the story and the director’s clear vision to clarify his situation, but the writers and politicians could not express it. Al-Nairn said in an interview with Sudan Events that the film used realistic techniques in its technical aspects: the streets, the houses, the features of the actresses resemble Sudanese girls, the fear, the tenderness, the beliefs, the personalities of the educated, conscious and hungry young man. Everything we suffer from was found in the film, and he added: The racist view that we cannot express through The film depicted her in a clear, dramatic way, particularly when Julia bid farewell to Khartoum in the port of Kosti. Al-Nairn considered the importance of the film to be that it documented a period in which the media failed to document it with such realism.
