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苏利曼和“苏丹电影俱乐部”的另外三名成员决定重振一家旧电影院。他们不仅因为对电影的热爱和对恢复旧电影存量、再次关注苏丹电影历史的强烈渴望而团结在一起，而且因为他们都曾在流放中接受过电影教育。不知疲倦地，他们试图让影院老板站在他们一边，让这个地方重新运作起来，但他们一再发现自己遭到了相当大的阻力。同时，他们坐在一起谈论过去——包括他们作为对立艺术家遭受迫害甚至折磨的经历。他们还朗读流亡和梦想苏丹时写的旧信，在那里艺术和智力思想可以自由。“我们比他们聪明，但不如他们强大，”他们一致总结了他们的处境。正是在这些简洁的时刻，观众才能够感知到友谊，以及在为共同理想而斗争中存在的纽带和意识形态的团结。
苏哈伊布·加斯梅尔巴里把苏丹电影的历史放在影片的中心，同时也揭示了一个受到持续危机影响的国家的现状
Suliman and three further members of the ‘Sudanese Film Club’ have decided to revive an old cinema. They are united not only by their love of cinema and their passionate desire to restore old film stock and draw attention to Sudanese film history once more, but also by the fact that they have all enjoyed a film education in exile. Tirelessly, they try to get the cinema’s owners on their side and make the place operational again, but repeatedly find themselves up against considerable resistance. In the meantime, they sit together and talk about the past – including their experiences of persecution and even torture as oppositional artists. They also read out old letters written while in exile and dream of a Sudan in which art and intellectual thought can be free. ‘We are smarter than them, but not as strong,’ is how they unanimously summarise their situation. It is in laconic moments such as these that the viewer is able to perceive the friendship, as well as the bond and ideological solidarity that exists in the struggle for common ideals.
Suhaib Gasmelbari puts the history of Sudanese cinema at the centre of his film and at the same time sheds light on the current situation in a country shaken by ongoing crises.
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忘记当初为什么标记想看这部了，但直到今年打开这部纪录片，现实中的苏丹已经再次开始了战乱，无法想象那里是否还有电影。
【上海电影节展映】题材独特的纪录片。“苏丹电影俱乐部”的四个老电影人，试图在这个已经自独裁者上台以来20多年没有人拍电影、放映电影的国度，租下废弃电影院给大众放映一部电影。然而自始至终困难重重。相信任何组织过电影放映活动的朋友都能感同身受。看到“电影放映审批困难”“总统压倒性高票连任”桥段忍不住发出苦笑。在迷影、聊天与幽默中讽刺当局。八声道立体声清真寺喇叭亮了
最喜欢这部纪录片的时间感。日子苍苍茫茫，微弱暗哑，天穹似铅，无边无尽地笼罩着世间万物，近乎凝滞胶着的时空内，几位老人如携带着漫长历史的乌龟般，试图大力搅动光柱中翻涌的灰尘。逼仄厕所内的污秽和不断敲落在头顶的水滴，是老人从未摆脱的残酷时代，更多拔地而起的寺庙和放大的电音是层叠的桎梏，球场上翻滚的青春是不自知的懵懂未来。裹挟着灰尘和泥土的行动在无形的阻力下似龟速，但竟然也走到似乎一伸手就能摸到星星的边缘，这极缓与极近的反差，并未以戏剧化的样貌呈现，而是融入了天台上的谈笑风生。关于树的谈论多了，也就成了森林。
“有时候失望是如此伟大，让希望得以壮大”/“他得到的选票比总选票数还多”/死去的英雄是因为遭遇叛徒。某种意义上太过熟悉了，几乎是兔死狐悲的切肤感。SIFF能上映这样一部纪录片真是厉害了。@UA梅陇镇
希望再過二十年，我和片中這些老傢伙們一樣，對電影充滿熱愛，還有這無畏的勇氣和幹勁。
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