The film's director, actors, producers, and co-founders of MAD Solutions will attend the screening.
Sudanese director Mohamed Kordofani, the first Sudanese film and director to be selected for Cannes Film Festival in history, is set to hold its world premiere on May 20 at 2 PM at Théâtre Claude Debussy, with the film’s cast and crew set to attend the screening.
The film will have one more screening at the same venue on May 21 at 8:30 AM, followed by a screening on the same day at Cineum IMAX at 11:15 AM and another on May 22 at Cineum Screen X in the same time slot.
Additionally, the film is expected to hold two market screenings — one on May 17 at 12 PM at PALAIS I, and another on May 22 at 1:45 PM at PALAIS H.
Director Mohamed Kordofani, producers Amjad Abu Alala and Mohamed Al-Omda, the film’s editor Heba Othman, as well as the film’s DOP Pierre de Villiers, are set to attend the screening.
Two of the film’s main heroines, Eiman Yousif and Siran Riak, along with Ger Duany and the co-founders of MAD Solutions, Alaa Karkouti and Maher Diab, as well as the company’s Head of Sales and Acquisitions, Meriame Deghedi, are all set to appear in the film.
The screening will also be attended by co-producers Baho Bakhsh (Red Star Films), Michael Henrichs (DGS), Khaled Awad (Klozium), Marc Irmer (Dolce Vita), Faisal Baltyuor (Cinewaves Films), Ali Elarabi (Ambient Light), and Issraa Elkogali Häggström (Riverflower).
MAD Solutions is handling the Un Certain Regard contender’s worldwide sales, while the French distributor ARP Sélection – Le Cinéma que J’aime is handling distribution in France.
Goodbye Julia follows the story of Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — who is wracked by guilt after covering up a murder. In an attempt to make amends, she takes in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home.
Unable to confess her transgressions to Julia, Mona decides to leave the past behind and adjust to a new status quo, unaware that the country’s turmoil may find its way into her home and put her face to face with her sins.
Goodbye Julia won the MAD Ergo award at the CineGouna SpringBoard that was held at the fourth edition of the El Gouna Film Festival, in addition to Best Film Project in the Development Phase ($15,000), a certificate from the El Gouna Cinema Platform, and the New Century Prize ($10,000). The film also won the Malmö Arab Film Festival’s award for Best Project In Development and received financial support from Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Fund and Beirut’s Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC).
It also won the Malmö Arab Film Festival’s award for Best Project In Development and received financial support from Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Fund, the Paris Region, ARRI, and Film und Medienstiftung NRW.
