Language: English / Arabic (English subtitles)
Taghreed Elsanhouri first feature documentary, All About Darfur is an intimate portrait of ordinary Sudanese, whose lives by decades of civil war and the ongoing crisis in the Darfur region of the country concerned. Rather than repeat the same harrowing images of humanitarian catastrophe as described in the Western media, the film brings a close Elsanhouri focus the mind and experience of the individual, and different conceptions of culture Chipping Sudan.
All about Darfur, and try to offer solutions or answers to what is considered a variable problem political, cultural or religious. Instead, there is the public a first look at the current position of Sudan in Darfur, where millions of people have been displaced and hundreds of thousands of deaths as a result of three years of fighting between rebels and pro-non-governmental organizations.
Elsanhouri, who was born in Sudan and later in the United Kingdom was as a child goes to the Sudan as a stranger to see for himself what in the country where he "spent an idyllic childhood." It is an intention on his to make the film much. "I'm not a political filmmaker, for me this film is a personal journey What we have done this trip is to share with you."
While the film establishes that the director has tried not to their own opinion or perspective in the documentary stamps, but to present the raw material, which captured and was "to show that it is because of the complexity of the situation in Darfur."
The film The structure is very simple and follows a pattern of association talks with the blocks of images from the site and the discussion between the director and cinematographer Sudanese government caretaker.
Each of Darfur is the degree of intimacy between the camera and interviewed, and the openness to talk with. Most of these conversations take place outside the Darfur region and show the experiences and views of ordinary people and Sudanese university officials, many important issues, including the complexity of race and religion in the politics of Sudan and the possibility of UN intervention.
Interviews in the refugee camps in Darfur Abu Shoak are in sharp contrast to the outside of the region. Witnesses spoke passionately during the crisis from the outside on the causes and solutions, politics and race, there is a sense of normality. The sound in the field is quite different, and displaced persons to speak in place of fear and despair, beatings and atrocities.
The director himself said that the film is not intended to be a complete scan of the crisis in Darfur, but must be considered a short stay "by a divided nation. And this trip a success in light of the elements of the national character rare in Sudan the international media saw.
