BEATS OF THE ANTONOV

Credits

Name: BEATS OF THE ANTONOV

Country: Sudan

Year of publication: 2014

Format: digital

Color: color

Language : OF m. engl. UT

Duration: 65 Minuten

Direction: Kuka, Hajooj

Screenplay: Kuka, Hajooj

Camera: Kuka, Hajooj

Editing: Kuka, Hajooj

Sound: Kuka, Hajooj

Abstract

Hajooj Kuka, Sudanese director of BEATS OF THE ANTONOV, a documentary that won awards at various festivals including Toronto, Durban and Luxor, spent two years living with farmers, shepherds and dispelled rebels along the Blue Nile and in the Nuba Mountains. He portrays their lives in hide-outs and refugee camps that are under constant threat of air strikes during the civil war. But the people do not lose heart. After each air strike, they laugh and play music as a sign that the raid is over and they have survived.