Goodbye Julia

"Goodbye Julia" (2023) is a Sudanese drama directed by Mohamed Kordofani — watch it online on iFILM. Set in Khartoum before and after the 2011 referendum that split Sudan. Northern woman Mona, a retired singer in a suffocating marriage, has been hiding a death she caused for years.

She takes the dead man's widow, Julia, into her home. Never tells her. The kindness she offers is real, and so is the lie underneath it. Eiman Yousif and Siran Riak carry the film with quiet precision.

Kordofani's debut became the first Sudanese film shown in Cannes' Un Certain Regard, where it picked up the Freedom Prize. What it does with two women and one secret is quietly devastating. Stream "Goodbye Julia" (2023) online on iFILM.