SUDAN REMEMBER US

Hosted by Ceredigion Community Film Ffilm Cymunedol Ceredigion & Palestine Solidarity Aberystwyth Soildariaeth Palestina in collaboration with WOW Film Festival & Aber Creative Community Cymuned Greadigol Aber.

Join us for a special screening of the award-winning documentary Sudan Remember Us, a beautiful and inspiring film which  shines a light on the Sudanese peoples struggle for social progress.

The film will followed by a brief panel discussion and a Special Meal of delicious food prepared by members of the local Sudanese community. The vegetarian menu will include gluten-free and dairy free options.

 DOORS OPEN AT 6.30pm, THE FILM SCREENING WILL START AT 7pm .

** We expect this event to be popular, so to ensure attendance at the Film Screening and Sudanese Community meal please book soon by clicking on 'Buy Tickets' to reserve your seats.  Payment will then be taken on the door at Arad Goch **

Watch the trailer here :      youtu.be/4OK9BPzaG-Q

'In 2019, documentary filmmaker Hind Meddab flew to Sudan to film a sit-in protest at the Army headquarters in Khartoum. The people of Sudan were assembling, demanding reform after decades of military dictatorship. There she met a selection of young activists that she would continue to film over the course of 4 years, from the swell of hope and accomplishment following dictator Omar al-Bashir’s fall to the oppression of the military crackdown and subsequent civil war, which today, leaves Sudan in ruins. 

Standing in front of a powerful army, how could the civilian movement find the strength to persist? In conversations, in demonstrations, on walls, it emerges how the Sudanese tradition for poetry becomes a powerful tool for activism. Art, music and poetry bolster every stage of the Sudanese fight for freedom. ‘Sudan, Remember Us’ bears witness to a lost revolution and within it unearths a tribute to the power of creativity as a tool of survival and resistance.'

This is a fund-raising event and all proceeds will be donated to the Emergency Response Rooms a grass-roots, community led movement in Sudan. 

 As Sudan’s devastating war enters its third year, international solidarity is more urgent than ever.

 Amid the destruction, of this brutal conflict , fuelled by imperialist interventions and fought over resources, wealth and land, Sudanese trade unionists, resistance committees, emergency response rooms, women’s organisations, and grassroots activists continue to organise for peace, justice, and genuine civilian rule.

The Emergency Response Rooms, which emerged from the resistance committees, play a vital role in protecting the Sudanese people from the catastrophic consequences of the war.

 The voices of the Sudanese people must be heard—and amplified.  We hope you can join us and stand in solidarity with them in their struggle against oppression and war.

Supported by Films of Resistance, Aberaid, Ceredigion Palestine Solidarity Campaign and UNITE Community Cymru.

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Ymunwch â ni am ddangosiad arbennig o’r ffilm ddogfen arobryn Sudan Remember Us, ffilm hardd ac ysbrydoledig sy’n taflu goleuni ar frwydr pobl Sudan dros gynnydd cymdeithasol.

Bydd y ffilm yn cael ei dilyn gan drafodaeth banel fer a Phryd Arbennig gyda bwyd blasus wedi’i baratoi gan aelodau o’r gymuned Sudanese leol.

DRYSAU’N AGOR AM 6.30yh, BYDD Y DANGOSIAD FFILM YN DECHRAU AM 7yh.

Disgwylir i’r digwyddiad hwn fod yn boblogaidd, felly er mwyn sicrhau eich presenoldeb yn y dangosiad ffilm a’r pryd gan y gymuned Sudanese, archebwch yn gynnar drwy glicio ar ‘Prynu Tocynnau’ i gadw eich seddi. Bydd taliad yn cael ei gasglu wrth y drws yn Arad Goch.

Gwyliwch y trelar yma:  youtu.be/4OK9BPzaG-Q

Yn 2019, hedfanodd y gwneuthurwraig ffilmiau dogfen Hind Meddab i Sudan i ffilmio protest eistedd i mewn ym mhencadlys y Fyddin yn Khartoum. Roedd pobl Sudan yn ymgynnull, yn mynnu diwygio ar ôl degawdau o unbennaeth filwrol. Yno cyfarfu â grŵp o weithredwyr ifanc y byddai’n parhau i’w ffilmio dros gyfnod o bedair blynedd, o’r ymchwydd o obaith a llwyddiant yn dilyn cwymp yr unben Omar al-Bashir, hyd at ormes y gwrthdrawiad milwrol a’r rhyfel cartref dilynol, sydd heddiw wedi gadael Sudan yn adfeilion.

Wrth sefyll o flaen byddin bwerus, sut allai’r mudiad sifil ddod o hyd i’r nerth i barhau? Mewn sgyrsiau, mewn protestiadau ac ar waliau, daw’n amlwg sut mae traddodiad barddol Sudan yn dod yn arf pwerus i weithgarwch. Mae celf, cerddoriaeth a barddoniaeth yn atgyfnerthu pob cam o frwydr Sudan dros ryddid. Mae ‘Sudan, Remember Us’ yn dyst i chwyldro coll, ac ynddi mae’n dadorchuddio teyrnged i rym creadigrwydd fel arf goroesi a gwrthsefyll.

Digwyddiad codi arian yw hwn, a bydd yr holl elw’n cael ei roi i’r Ystafelloedd Ymateb Brys, mudiad llawr gwlad dan arweiniad y gymuned yn Sudan.

Wrth i ryfel dinistriol Sudan fynd i’w drydedd flwyddyn, mae undod rhyngwladol yn fwy brys nag erioed.

Yng nghanol dinistr y gwrthdaro creulon hwn — wedi’i danio gan ymyriadau imperialaidd ac ymladd dros adnoddau, cyfoeth a thir — mae undebwyr llafur Sudanese, pwyllgorau gwrthsafiad, ystafelloedd ymateb brys, sefydliadau menywod a gweithredwyr llawr gwlad yn parhau i drefnu dros heddwch, cyfiawnder a rheolaeth sifil wirioneddol.

Mae’r Ystafelloedd Ymateb Brys, a ddeilliodd o’r pwyllgorau gwrthsafiad, yn chwarae rhan hanfodol wrth amddiffyn pobl Sudan rhag canlyniadau trychinebus y rhyfel.

Ers Ebrill 2023, mae sifiliaid wedi’u dal rhwng dau fintai filwrol cystadleuol Sudan — y SAF a’r RSF — mewn gwrthdaro sydd â’i wreiddiau nid yn unig mewn cystadleuaeth arfog, ond yn y frwydr anorffenedig o chwyldro 2018 ac mewn degawdau o wladychiaeth, rheolaeth filwrol, imperialaeth ac ormes.

Rhaid clywed lleisiau pobl Sudan — a’u chwyddo. Gobeithiwn y gallwch ymuno â ni yn Arad Goch ar 30 Ionawr.

Gyda chefnogaeth Films of Resistance, Aberaid, Ymgyrch Solidariaeth Palestina Ceredigion ac UNITE Community Cymru.