THE LONGEST KISS

Alexandra Sicotte-Lévesque

Subjects: Africa , Identity , International Affairs , Youth

Directed by

Alexandra Sicotte-Lévesque

Languages

English, Arabic

Produced by

Alexandra Sicotte-Lévesque

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72 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2013

Six young Sudanese searching for a place to call ‘home’ ahead of their country’s inevitable fragmentation.

Synopsis
The meeting of the Blue and White Nile in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, is referred to as ‘the longest kiss in history’. As the Arab Spring was in full bloom, Sudan, straddling between the Middle East and Africa, was about to split in two. The film follows six young Sudanese searching for a place to call ‘home’ as their journeys take us up and down the Nile, between north and south Sudan, ahead of the south’s secession. Facing conflicting identities, youth in north Sudan grapple with a stale dictatorship while others in south Sudan hope to start over—but at what costs? For the first time a film gives a voice to Sudanese youth from different origins, Muslims and Christians. It is an intimate portrait of a complex society that bears witness to its inevitable fragmentation.

 

Credits
Script and Direction : Alexandra Sicotte-Lévesque

Direction of Photography : Katerine Giguere

Sound Design : Jean-François Sauvé

Sound Recording : Alexandra Sicotte-Lévesque

Editing : Myriam Magassouba, Diego Briceno

Music : Olivier Allary

Producer : Alexandra Sicotte-Lévesque
Executive Producer : Yanick Letourneau

Production : Périphéria Productions

 

Financial Partners

FMC

SODEC

Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Shaw Media

Hotdocs

Patrimoine canadien

Super channel

 

Alexandra Sicotte-Lévesque

Alexandra Sicotte-Lévesque is a development worker, journalist and filmmaker. Originally from Montreal, Canada, Alexandra co-founded the non-profit organization Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) in 2002. She was awarded the Gordon Global Fellowship in 2006 which enabled her to produce her first documentary film, When Silence is Golden (2007), about the impact of Canadian mining interests on a small community in Ghana, West Africa. The film was awarded a honorable mention at the Pan Africa Film Festival in Montreal, and was screened in the US, the UK and across Canada. After working for nearly 3 years in Sudan, with the BBC World Service Trust and the United Nations peacekeeping mission, Alexandra produced and directed her second documentary film, The Longest Kiss (2013).