Ibrahim Shaddad is a writer, theater and film director. He studied film production in Germany at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (at that time Academy for Film and Television of the GDR), worked in Germany, Egypt and predominantly in Sudan.

LK: Ibrahim, how did you come to choose your university, and how was your experience there? IBRAHIM SHADDAD: I left Sudan on a scholarship from the DAAD to study agriculture at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart.

Made as a graduation project at the German Academy of Film Art in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Shaddad’s seminal film is a Western-inspired treatise on racism. Shot in a forest in Brandenburg, it portrays a white mob’s hunt for a black farmworker.

2023年11月1日 · This essay journeys through the silent dialogues and intimacies in Ibrahim Shaddad’s vivid cinematic oeuvre that render him a genre unto himself and a distinctive presence in Sudanese and African cinema.

Ibrahim Shaddad, born in Halfa, Sudan in 1945, studied filmmaking at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (at that time Academy for Film and Television of the GDR). He graduated in 1964. Over the course of his career, he has made many medium length and short films, among which are Hunting Party (1964) and The Rope (1984).

Directed by Ibrahim Shaddad • 1981 • Sudan. This short by Ibrahim Shaddad of the Sudanese Film Group is a report from the life of a camel, most of which plays out in a dreary, small room—a sesame mill.

2021年12月15日 · Ibrahim Shaddad’s graduation film JAGDPARTIE, (which he shot at the Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst Potsdam-Babelsberg (now: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF), is a treatise on racism. Shot in a forest in Brandenburg, it uses a Western look to portray the hunt for a Black man.

Ibrahim Shaddad is a writer, theater and film director. He studied film production in Germany at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (at that time Academy for Film and Television of the GDR), worked in Germany, Egypt and predominantly in Sudan.

Ibrahim Shaddad (* 1945 in Wadi Halfa, Anglo-Ägyptischer Sudan) ist ein sudanesischer Filmregisseur und Drehbuchautor

Sudanese filmmaker, Ibrahim Shaddad provides a dramatic and powerful account of the trials and tribulations of a Sudanese villager in an alien, large city. Shot entirely without dialogue, the film's innovative use of sound helps tell the story of a shepherd who leaves his …