The film is produced by Amjad Abu Alala’s Station Films and co-produced by Ali Alarabi, CEO and founder of Ambient Light.
Zanzibar International Film Festival in Tanzania has selected Sudanese director Mohamed Kordofani’s acclaimed film, Goodbye Julia from South Sudan and Mvera from Kenya as the opening film.
Goodbye Julia will be screened on August 1 at Amphitheatre – Old Fort Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania. The film features Eiman Yousif, Siran Riak, Nazar Goma and Ger Duany.
The film recently achieved another milestone by winning the Blue Angel Award for Best Feature Film at the IFF Art Film in Kosice, Slovakia.
Goodbye Julia premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival last year, clinching the prestigious Freedom Prize. The film represented Sudan in the Best International Film category at the Academy Awards.
Lupita Nyong’o, the Academy Award-winning actress serves as the executive producer of Goodbye Julia.
Directed by Mohamed Kordofani, the film unfolds within the backdrop of the secessionist movement that led to the formation of the independent nation of South Sudan in 2011.
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.
The film is a co-production involving Sudanese, Swedish, German, Saudi, French and Egyptian collaborators.
Written and directed by Mohamed Kordofani, Goodbye Julia is produced by Amjad Abu Alala of Station Films in collaboration with Mohamed Al-Omda. Worldwide sales and distribution are managed by MAD Solutions.
Co-producers of the film include Baho Bakhsh and Safei Eldin Mahmoud (Red Star Films), Michael Henrichs (Die Gesellschaft), Khaled Awad and Mohamed Kordofani (Klozium Studios), Marc Irmer (Dolce Vita), Faisal Baltyuor (Cinewaves Films), Ali El-Arabi (Ambient Light), Adham El-Sherif (CULT), and Issraa Elkogali Häggström (RiverFlower).
