Narratives of Sudan: Film Screening and Panel

Start: Thursday, January 22, 2026•05:30 PM

End: Thursday, January 22, 2026•08:30 PM

Location: SFU Harbour Centre• 515 West Hastings, Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3 CA

Narratives of Sudan: Film Screening and Panel

We are honored to host Narratives of Sudan: A Film Screening & Talkback with award-winning director Timeea M. Ahmed (Sundance, Berlinale, Hot Docs nominee).

  • Thursday January 22, 2026
  • Doors 5:30 pm Start 6 pm
  • SFU Harbor Center, Room 7000, 515 West Hastings St, Vancouver
  • xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh & səlilwətaɬ lands

Free event but spaces are limited. RSVP & Share to spread the word.

Organized by Voices for Sudan and Sudan Solidarity Collective, supported by Weaving Our Worlds and SFU Labour Studies

Experience Timeea M Ahmed's powerful films:

"Khartoum" (Feature Film)

"is it war?" (Experimental Short)

How do we archive a revolution? How does storytelling become an act of resistance?

Dive deeper in a post-screening panel with Timeea M. Ahmed and the brilliant Sudanese writer Dinan Alasad, both in-person! We’ll explore how visual and verbal storytelling can reclaim history, resist erasure, and rebuild collective memory.

Moderated by Salome Ayuak.

This free event is a space for community, learning, and amplifying vital voices from Sudan.


Film Details & Presenter Bios:

Khartoum: Five lives, one city, a nation at war. A civil servant, a tea lady, a resistance committee volunteer and two street boys. Five stories from Sudan weave together in search of freedom through animated dreams, street revolutions and a war from the metropolis of Khartoum to escape in East Africa.

Is it War: When Jafar is detached from his soul in a surreal journey through a forest , he must mentally escape the brutal truths of his homeland's conflict Sudan and the horrors of war and displacement , before it destroys his mind.

Director Timeea M. Ahmed: Award-winning Sudanese director, editor, and producer, exploring themes of conflict, identity, and cultural resilience; Nominated at Sundance, Berlinale, Hot-Docs and more.

Panelist Dinan Alasad is a writer & mathematician from Khartoum, Sudan. She has lived in London for the past six years, working in tech by day and writing by night on her platform Letters from Dinan, where she engages with over 1400 Sudanese women from all over the world.

Moderator Salome Ayuak is a South Sudanese organizer and graduate student in Geography at the University of British Columbia. She co-leads Political Education for the Sudanese Resistance Front (SuRF) and is the co-founder of the Reel Liberation Collective, which uses African cinema to foster political education and action. All of her work is rooted in African-centered movements for liberation and the eradication of imperialism.

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