Cinema Africa 24/25: A Conversation with Mohamed Kordofani, director of "Goodbye Julia"
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- Abstract
- Mohamed Kordofani's critically acclaimed movie "Goodbye Julia" is his first feature film. As part of the 16th edition of Cinema Africa Kordofani came to Bayreuth to present his film to the Bayreuth public. Maryam Shojaei and Bakheit Nur had the chance to sit down with him and ask him a few questions on his career, his film and the political background that frames this extraordinary work of art.
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- Cinema Africa 24/25: A Conversation with Mohamed Kordofani, director of "Goodbye Julia"
- Language
- English
- Date
- February 4, 2025
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- um hello Mr cordani thank you for being here with us tonight um we will screen your significant movie goodbye Julia here in clex byid and um I like to ask some questions about your past your career and this this uh movie but first um like a maybe a rapid introduction of yourself thank you Mariam and thank you for having me and thank you for screening the film it's always um a pleasure for me to uh screen the film to new audiences um so I'm happy to be here in b um and happy to screen the film uh my name is muhamed kurani uh I'm the writer and director of the film goodbye Julia uh uh I'm also co-producer in the film um and I made a few short films before uh but this is my first feature length film MH thank you very much um I will start with a general question uh you started your career as an aircraft engineering I think before transitioning to film making um I wanted to ask what were the key moments or influences that prompted this significant change in your career pass yes um good question um when I finished my high school I wanted to do fine arts um but I couldn't my father thought um it's not really um a job um he was okay with it being a hobby but he thought um I should get a a man's um degree uh something like engineering or or um um medicine or something like that and this is very common uh I think in in our part of the world that people don't consider Arts to be um uh a living uh job uh so I studied um aircraft engineering because um he was a pilot and he he also um after his uh retirement he ran a a small company that does air handling um so it only made sense uh if I'm not going to do what I like I I would just do something that um I can find a job in uh so I studied aircraft engineering and I started working as an aircraft engineer uh but I never really quit Arts I um uh since my first uh uh year in University I started writing and I think this is what started everything I started writing fiction stories they were short comedy stories that um nobody really… Read the full text about 3,066 words
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