Beats of the Antonov (2014)

Directed by

Hajooj Kuka

Genre

documentary film

Country

Sudan, South Africa

Runtime

1h 05m

Rating

3.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary about communities in Sudan's Nuba Mountains during conflict. It shows how music helps people keep their culture and spirit alive.

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What happens

Beats of the Antonov is a documentary film released in 2014. It is a Sudanese-South African coproduction, directed by Sudanese filmmaker Hajooj Kuka and produced by Hajooj Kuka and Steven Markovitz. The film documents the Sudan–SRF conflict in the Blue Nile and Nuba Mountains regions, focusing in particular on the role of music in helping the affected communities to sustain themselves culturally and spiritually in the face of the ongoing conflict. This documentary, that "put Sudan's name on the screen of world cinema", was made over a period of two years, with film director Hajooj Kuka residing among the people of the Nuba Mountains in Southern Sudan. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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