REVOLUTION FROM AFAR

a.k.a. ثورة من بعيد

dir. Bentley Brown
67 min | USA/Sudan | 2020
English & Sudanese Arabic

Sudanese-American poets and musicians engage in performances and a conversation around dual identity and belonging to Sudan, from which they have been physically cut off. Featured on PBS series AfroPoP (2022-23), curated by Black Public Media.

Support from the Sterling Scholarship of the College of Media, Communication, and Information at the University of Colorado-Boulder; the Mimesis Micro Grant from the Mimesis Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media; and the Creative Research Grant of the Department of Critical Media Practices at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Watch the TV hour cut of Revolution From Afar on PBS

Festival Selections

• Sudan Independent Film Festival (2020)

• Visions du Réel | Media Library 2020, Switzerland (2020)

• Rising Up: Sudan, Portland, USA (2020)

• Mimesis Documentary Festival, Boulder, USA (2020), Nominated for Best Feature Documentary

• Cinemambulante Storie di Integrazione, Italy (2020)

• DC Black Film Festival, USA (2020), Nominated for Best Feature Documentary

• San Antonio Black International Film Festival, USA (2020), - Winner, Best Student Documentary

• Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Film Fest, Washington DC, USA (2020)

• Terra di Tutti, Italy (2020)

• Silicon Valley African Film Festival, San Jose, USA (2020) Finalist, Best Documentary

• Muestra de Cine Africano, Argentina (2020)

• Immigration Film Fest, Washington DC, USA (2020)

• North Dakota Human Rights Film Festival, USA (2020)

• Gary International Black Film Festival, USA (2020)

• Sabira Cole Film Festival, Pittsburgh, USA (2020) - Winner, Documentary Feature Prize

• Arab Film Fest Collab (Arab Film Festival SF + Mizna + ArtEast + Arab-American National Museum), USA (2020)

• Global Migration Film Festival, United Nations International Organization of Migration (IOM) (2020)

• African Film Festival, Uganda (2020)

• Africa Movie Academy Awards, Nigeria (2020), Nominated for Best Diaspora Documentary

• AFI New African Film Festival, USA (2021)

• Denton Black Film Festival, USA (2021), Nominated for Best Feature Documentary

• New York African Film Festival, USA (2021)

• Spitting Fire, USA (2021)

• Hip Hop Film Festival, USA (2021), Winner, Best Feature Documentary

• Zanzibar International Film Festival, Tanzania (2021), Nominated for Best Feature Documentary

• Twin Cities Black Film Festival, USA (2021), Nominated for Best Feature Documentary

• Denver Film Festival, USA (2021)

• African Film Festival Atlanta, USA (2021)

• London Migration Film Festival, UK (2021)

• Visible Evidence, Germany (2021)

• Peloponnisos International Documentary Festival, Greece (2022)

• Middle East Film Festival, Florida State University, USA (2022)

• Maine International Film Festival, USA (2022)