Academy Award-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o was announced earlier this week as Jury President of the upcoming 77th Berlin Film Festival, taking place in the German capital from February 15 to 25.
Ahead of her Berlinale tour of duty, Nyong’o has been getting behind Sudan’s Best International Feature Film Oscar entry Goodbye Julia, coming on board as its executive producer.
For a taste of Nyong’o’s film analysis skills watch her conversation with Goodbye Julia director Mohamed Kordofani.
Set in Khartoum on the eve of the 2011 schism between Sudan’s southern and northern populations, Goodbye Julia revolves around a bourgeois northerner who tries to make amends for her role in the killing of man from the South by hiring his penniless widow, without revealing her motive.
The pair become close, but then the truth of the situation starts to emerge.
The film was shot in Sudan amid rising political instability in the wake of a military coup in October 2021, which has since dissolved into a civil war between two rival generals, displacing millions of people.
Goodbye Julia made history at Cannes as the first Sudanese film to play in Official Selection, world premiering in Un Certain Regard, where it won the Freedom Prize.
Nyong’o, who boarded the film as EP after it was completed, chooses three key scenes, which Kordofani then takes her through, explaining how he set it up and his intentions, for an awards season Q&A.
“We are so honored to have you on this film and maybe for our next film, if you EP, you’ll come to the set,” says Kordofani at the end of the conversation.
Ahead of her Berlinale tour of duty, Nyong’o has been getting behind Sudan’s Best International Feature Film Oscar entry Goodbye Julia, coming on board as its executive producer.
For a taste of Nyong’o’s film analysis skills watch her conversation with Goodbye Julia director Mohamed Kordofani.
Set in Khartoum on the eve of the 2011 schism between Sudan’s southern and northern populations, Goodbye Julia revolves around a bourgeois northerner who tries to make amends for her role in the killing of man from the South by hiring his penniless widow, without revealing her motive.
The pair become close, but then the truth of the situation starts to emerge.
The film was shot in Sudan amid rising political instability in the wake of a military coup in October 2021, which has since dissolved into a civil war between two rival generals, displacing millions of people.
Goodbye Julia made history at Cannes as the first Sudanese film to play in Official Selection, world premiering in Un Certain Regard, where it won the Freedom Prize.
Nyong’o, who boarded the film as EP after it was completed, chooses three key scenes, which Kordofani then takes her through, explaining how he set it up and his intentions, for an awards season Q&A.
“We are so honored to have you on this film and maybe for our next film, if you EP, you’ll come to the set,” says Kordofani at the end of the conversation.
