Kafi's Story

Kafi's Story is an ethnographic film about life of Nuba ethnic people in Sudan, directed by Amy Hardie and Arthur Howes.

Kafi's Story
Directed by	Amy Hardie Arthur Howes
Written by	Amy Hardie Arthur Howes
Edited by	Arthur Howes
Production companies	N.F.T.S, Station Road
Distributed by	Marfilmes
Release date	1989 (1989)
Running time	54 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	Nuba
Budget	£20,000

Synopsis

Shot between 1986 and 1988, Kafi's Story captures scenes from the life of Nuba peoples just before they were involved in the Second Sudanese Civil War.

Kafi, a young man from the Torogi village in the Nuba Mountains in Sudan, is one of the first men to travel north to the capital Khartoum in search of money. Having money is the only way for him to get a dress and to marry a second wife, Tete.

Ten years after this film, Arthur Howes went back to Sudan to shoot the documentary Nuba Conversations, where he wanted to capture the life of Nuba peoples during the war.

Festivals

• Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia (2000)

Awards

• Joris Ivens Award (third place) of IDFA - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1989)
• Documentary Award at BBC BP Expo Documentary, England (1990)
• Basil Wright Prize of R.A.I. International Festival of Etnographic Films, England (1990)
• American Visual Anthropology Award (2000)

Bibliography

• Loizos, Peter, Sudanese Engagements: Three Films by Arthur Howes (1950–2004), Routledge, 2006

External links

• Kafi's Story at the Internet Movie Database
• Arthur Howes at the Internet Movie Database
• Amy Hardie at the Internet Movie Database
• Kafi's Story' at California Newsreel
• Sudan Update
• 'Kafi's Story at the British Film Institute
• University of California' Beverly Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
• History of Cinema in Sudan
• Caught in the Crossfire Arthur Howes' article in New Internationalist
• Article about Arthur Howes at The Guardian
• Nuba Survival Foundation