DUBAI: The Sudanese movie “Goodbye Julia,” by filmmaker Mohamed Kordofani, this week won the Audience Award for best fiction feature at the Leeds International Film Festival in the UK.
The film follows two women from the north and south of Sudan respectively — Mona, a retired singer racked with guilt for causing a man’s death, and another, Julia, the man’s widow. Mona offers Julia — who doesn’t know about Mona’s involvement in her late husband’s death — a job as her maid to atone for her misdeeds, against the wishes of her husband Akram, who is open in his resentment of southerners.
In May, the Saudi-backed movie won the first-ever Freedom Award at the Cannes Film Festival.
This week, the director announced on Instagram that the movie will have a US tour. On Nov. 27 it will screen in Washington, on Nov. 29 in New Jersey, on Nov. 30 in New York and on Dec. 1 in Massachusetts.
“I will be present at the following screenings for a discussion/Q&A after every show,” he wrote.
