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Goodbye Julia

Goodbye Julia

Goodbye Julia

Dir. Mohamed Kordofani
125 min

18th Arab Film Festival

CLOSING NIGHT AT THE WALKER ART CENTER

Sunday, September 29 at 7pm

Mizna’s 18th Twin Cities Arab Film Festival closes with a pair of special screenings and a reception catered by Baba’s co-presented with the Walker Art Center.

Closing reception will be held in the Bazinet lobby before the film with catering from Baba’s and a cash bar. Passholders will receive a complimentary drink ticket. Passholders will receive a code to reserve their tickets to the Sunday events at the Walker.

Reserve Here

ABOUT THE FILM

Racked by guilt after causing and covering up the murder of a man from the South, Mona, a retired northern Sudanese singer tries to make amends by hiring the man’s widow, Julia as a maid, and taking in Julia’s son, Daniel. The guilt takes a toll on her relationships, increasing the tension in her marriage and leading Mona to question her social position and lifestyle. Unable to confess her transgressions to Julia or her husband, Mona attempts to 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. Set in Khartoum before the separation of South Sudan, Goodbye Julia tackles anti-Black racism and the social and class hierarchies that still impact Sudanese life in the North and South today.

FILMMAKER BIO

Mohamed Kordofani is a Sudanese filmmaker whose short film Nyerkuk won numerous awards across the world. His second short Kejers Prison was screened during the Sudanese revolution at the sit-in square in front of thousands of protesters, and his documentary A Tour in Love Republic was the first pro-revolution film to be broadcasted on Sudan's national TV. Goodbye Julia, his first narrative feature film, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024.

PRESENTED BY MIZNA

Celebrating 25 years in 2024, Mizna is a critical platform for contemporary literature, film, art, and cultural production centering the work of Arab and Southwest Asian and North African artists. For more than twenty years, we have been creating a decolonized cultural space to reflect the expansiveness of our community and to foster exchange, examine ideas, and engage audiences in meaningful art.

Film Details

Programs: Images of Africa, Twin Cities Arab Film Festival
Release Year: 2023
Runtime: 125 min
Country/Region: Sudan
Language: Arabic, English
Tags: Drama

Cast/Crew

Director: Mohamed Kordofani
Producer: Amjad Abu Alala, Mohamed Alomd'a
Cinematographer: Pierre de Villiers
Screenwriter: Mohamed Kordofani
Editor: Heba Othman
Composer: Mazin Hamid
Principal Cast: Eiman Yousif, Siran Riak, Nazar Gomaa, Ger Duany