KHARTOUM - a film screening in collaboration with the Human Rights Film Festival Lugano
International Relations and Study abroad Service
Date: 14 October 2025 / 17:30 - 19:30
Auditorio of the Università della Svizzera italiana, Main Building, West Campus
Tuesday, 14th October 2025 at 5:30 pm at the Auditorio of the Università della Svizzera italiana
KHARTOUM, by Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy, Timeea M. Ahmed | Sudan, United Kingdom, Germany, Qatar, 2025 | 80 min
OV with Italian and English subtitles
Five lives, one city... the fate of a nation. From the metropolis of Khartoum five Sudanese characters: a civil servant, a tea lady, a resistance committee volunteer, and two street boys all in search of freedom, have their stories unexpectedly woven together through animated dreams, street revolutions and a civil war.
Film screening in collaboration with the Human Rights Film Festival Lugano.
An event organized by the International Relations and Study Abroad Service and the Equal Opportunities Service.
The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion (Italian and English).
Panellists:
Jolanta Drzewiecka, Associate Professor and Vice-dean, Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society, Vice-Director, Institute of Communication and Public Policy (ICPP)
Kevin Ben Lee, Associate Professor, Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society, Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema and the Audiovisual Arts
Moderation:
Vega Tescari, lecturer, Academy of Architecture and the Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society
A small aperitif will follow, in collaboration with Umamy.
Please register through the following link: REGISTRATION
The event is part of the "Il mondo in USI" initiative.
Human Rights Film Festival Lugano: Founded in 2014, the Human Rights Film Festival Lugano (FFDUL) is the most important forum on human rights and the first film festival in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland entirely dedicated to these issues (https://www.festivaldirittiumani.ch/).