Kafi's Story

{{Short description|Documentary film about Nuba ethnic group in Sudan}} {{Infobox film | name = Kafi's Story | image = | alt = | caption = | director = Amy Hardie<br/>Arthur Howes | producer = | writer = Amy Hardie<br/>Arthur Howes | music = | cinematography = | editing = Arthur Howes | studio = N.F.T.S, Station Road | distributor = Marfilmes | released = {{Film date|1989}} | runtime = 54 minutes | country = United Kingdom | language = Nuba | budget = £20,000 | gross = }} '''''Kafi's Story''''' is an ethnographic film about life of Nuba ethnic people in Sudan, directed by Amy Hardie and Arthur Howes.

==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== * [https://archive.today/20130114230121/http://miff.com.au/60_years_of_miff/film_archive?movieid=22101 Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia] (2000)

==Awards== * [http://www.idfa.nl/industry/tags/project.aspx?id=5bb7fadd-9783-4c9e-b384-f3101f65844a Joris Ivens Award (third place) of IDFA - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the Netherlands]{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (1989) * Documentary Award at BBC BP Expo Documentary, England (1990) * Basil Wright Prize of R.A.I. International Festival of Etnographic Films, England (1990) <ref>matthias-schoebe.de/pdf/rai2011catalogue.pdf</ref> * American Visual Anthropology Award (2000)

==Bibliography== * Loizos, Peter, ''Sudanese Engagements: Three Films by Arthur Howes (1950–2004)'', Routledge, 2006

==External links== *[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1820482/ ''Kafi's Story''] at the Internet Movie Database *[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4052846/ Arthur Howes] at the Internet Movie Database *[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4271538/ Amy Hardie] at the Internet Movie Database *[http://newsreel.org/video/KAFIS-STORY ''Kafi's Story'''] at California Newsreel *[http://www.sudanupdate.org/Film%20page/nubafilm.html Sudan Update] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090523093041/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/459500 ''{{'}}Kafi's Story''] at the British Film Institute *[https://archive.today/20121202110156/http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/film/FN13467 University of California' Beverly Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive] *[http://www.filmbirth.com/sudan.html History of Cinema in Sudan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120506014944/http://www.filmbirth.com/sudan.html |date=2012-05-06 }} *[http://www.newint.org/features/1992/12/05/caught/ ''Caught in the Crossfire'' Arthur Howes' article] in New Internationalist *[https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/dec/07/broadcasting.guardianobituaries Article about Arthur Howes] at The Guardian *[https://web.archive.org/web/20190124202724/http://www.nubasurvival.com/ Nuba Survival Foundation]

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Category:Films shot in Sudan Category:Anthropology documentary films Category:1989 films Category:1989 documentary films Category:British documentary films