Nothing Happens After the Revolution

Ibrahim Omar
Sudan | 2026 | 79 min
World premiere
Subtitles : French, English

While making his graduation film in Cairo, Omar Ibrahim learns that his home country, Sudan, is being shaken by revolution. In the film’s fictional story, a family is unable to bury their deceased child – a theme that strangely echoes the sense of powerlessness experienced by the filmmaker who, in Nothing Happens After the Revolution, reflects on exile.

Filmed in 2023, Nothing Happens After That is a fictional work in which Ibrahim Omar follows the harrowing day in the life of a Sudanese family grappling with the grief of losing their child and the despair of being unable to give him a proper burial. The brightly coloured images from this short film reappear in his new work, Nothing Happens After the Revolution, where they are recast in sombre black and white to convey the context of its creation. As the shoot runs into production problems, the filmmaker feels torn by his inability to return to his homeland, Sudan, where a revolution has erupted. Plagued by doubts about his work, he begins teaching his native language to his very young daughter. Soon after, his cinematographer leaves Egypt for Sweden and then informs him that he will no longer work with him. The tone of the filmmaker’s voice-over shifts to deliver a broader reflection on exile, distance, grief and the passing on of knowledge.

Raphaëlle Pireyre

Nothing Happens After the Revolution, 2026
Nothing Will Happen After That, 2024
History of Sudanese Cinema, 2018
Rakouba Cinema, 2021