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GOODBYE JULIA
WADAAN JULIA

• Director: Mohamed Kordofani
• SUDAN, EGYPT, GERMANY, FRANCE, SAUDI ARABIA, SWEDEN / 2023 / DCP / Colour / 120’ / Arabic; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Mohamed Kordofani
• Director of Photography: Pierre de Villiers
• Editing: Heba Othman
• Music: Mazin Hamid
• Cast: Eiman Yousif, Siran Riak, Nazar Gomaa, Ger Duany, Stephanos James Peter
• Producer: Amjad Abu Alala
• Production Co.: Station Films, Red Star Films, Die Gesellschaft DGS, Klozium Studios, Dolce Vita Films, Cinewaves Films, Ambient Light, CULT, RiverFlower
• World Sales: MAD Solutions

2023 Cannes Freedom Prize – Un Certain Regard
2023 Septimius Awards (The Netherlands) Best African Film
2023 War on Screen FF (France) Audience Award, Press Award
2023 Belfast Best Film
2023 Mostra de Cinema Arab (Barcelona) Audience Award

The first Sudanese film to be selected for the Cannes Film Festival, and the country’s first ever Oscar nominee, Goodbye Julia is a powerful and moving drama that follows two desperate women in the shadow of impending war. Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona – a former popular singer from northern Sudan – tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s unsuspecting southern Sudanese widow, Julia and her son. A meditation on grief, guilt, identity, and racism, Goodbye Julia offers a rare glimpse into the psyche and quotidian life of the divided Sudanese nation. Goodbye Julia is the debut feature film by self-taught filmmaker Mohamed Kordofani, produced by acclaimed Sudanese filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala, director of You Will Die At Twenty.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.