Goodbye Julia + discussion

From executive producer Lupita Nyong’o, Goodbye Julia was the first Sudanese film ever to screen in Cannes official selection. Screening in collaboration with QUB Sudanese Society, who will lead a post-screening discussion.

It went on to win the festival’s Freedom Prize and was later Sudan’s official submission to the Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film.

Goodbye Julia tells the story of Mona (Eiman Yousif) and her maid Julia (Siran Rick). As political tensions mount in Khartoum, Julia finds herself torn between the truth of what happened to her missing husband, the possibility of new love with activist Majier and how she can care for her son.

Set around South Sudan’s succession from Sudan in 2011, Goodbye Julia tells a neglected but crucial historical story in exceptionally personal terms. Poignant, tender and beautifully shot, it is part of a wave of excellent films from Sudan including Talking About Trees and You Will Die at Twenty.

You may also like the following events from Queen's Film Theatre, Belfast:

• This Sunday, 16th November, 03:15 pm, Too Much: Letter from an Unknown Woman + Introduction in Belfast
• Next Monday, 17th November, 06:15 pm, Outburst: Club Des Femmes presents Dyketactics: 50 Years of Lesbionic Cinema in Belfast
• Next Friday, 21st November, 12:30 pm, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in Belfast

Also check out other Entertainment events in Belfast, Festivals in Belfast.