Katarina Hedrén talks to Sudanese producer, director and screenwriter  Amjad Abu-Alala about keeping a film industry alive in times of great upheaval, about collaboration and knowing when compromise is possible and when it’s not.

Amjad Abu-Alala is a prolific Sudanese film director, producer and screenwriter. His first feature film, the multi-award winning You will Die at 20 premiered at the 2019 Venice Days where it won the Lion of the Future award. The film has since screened and won awards at numerous film festivals, including Toronto International Film Festival before its commercial release in Egypt, Tunisia, France and the US, among other countries.

This podcast series is funded by The GIZ - The German Agency for International Cooperation and the Goethe-Institut

In this episode Jyoti and Katarina Hedrén continue a conversation about identity, belonging and creative expression that has been going on for years. Jyoti talks about the importance of ‘play’ as a strategy, about freedom and why she makes no distinction between her roles as a filmmaker and an educator.

Renowned South African filmmaker Jyoti Mistry - Professor of Film at HDK-Valand at Gothenburg University, Sweden - works in film as a mode of research and artistic practice. Her most recent work is a trilogy exploring race, gender and sexuality through archival sources: When I grow up I want to bea black man, Cause of Death and the forthcoming Loving in between.

Find out more about Jyoti Mistry here: https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/jyotimistry

This podcast series is funded by The GIZ - The GIZ - The German Agency for International Cooperation and the Goethe-Institut and is brought to you in 3 languages; English, French and Portuguese.

Namibian-British filmmaker and researcher Perivi Katjavivi talks to Katarina Hedrén about the search for language, haunted sites and how it is possible and necessary to be comfortable in tension.

Perivi Katjavivi is a PhD candidate in History at University of the Western Cape, based in Namibia. He is known for the Netflix-series Emoyeni, and the films Film Festival Film and The Unseen. He has written extensibly for the Windhoek Observer, Africa is a Country and OkayAfrica on issues such as culture, identity, race and genocide.

This podcast series is funded by The GIZ - The GIZ - The German Agency for International Cooperation and the Goethe-Institut and is brought to you in 3 languages; English, French and Portuguese.