“I realized then that I was somehow responsible for that decision, for all my life in Khartoum I had known no one from the south except for some domestic workers as if we had practiced social apartheid. There’s one shot of Christian Slater as Elliot’s father, Mr.
And yes, just because he’s a hallucination doesn’t mean he’s going anywhere. “The racism that was practiced for many decades from most Northern Arabs, government and people, was a major reason for the southerners choosing to secede,” says Kordofani. Seriously, there’s a lot going on in this trailer. Kordofani, who hails from the north, explores the roots of this schism through the tale of two women from either side of the division whose lives become intertwined in Khartoum.Įiman Yousif plays a former singer from the north who tries to make amends for unwittingly causing the murder of a southern man by hiring his widow as a maid and paying for the education of her son, without revealing her connection to the crime.ĭubai-based, South Sudan-born top model Siran Riak makes her debut as the maid, with veteran Sudanese actor Nazar Goma and U.S-Sudanese actor and refugee advocate Ger Duany ( The Good Lie, The Nile Hilton Incident) in supporting roles. The vote followed decades of conflict between the suppressed Black mainly Christian population of the south and the ruling Arab Muslim population of the north. Goodbye Julia, however, is not focused on Sudan’s recent history, but rather on the events leading up to the 2011 South Sudanese Independence referendum, in which 99.57% of the people polled voted in favor of the region seceding from the north.
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