how jewish kuko wants to make films for his people we caught up with the filmmaker in berlin where he was taking a break from his troubled home country of sudan a land long beset by conflict and mismanagement the conversation about filmmaking soon shifted in august of last year together with 10 other artists who was arrested on what he says were trumped up charges as a long time supporter of peaceful change in sudan. on the steps of getting into peace but we're struggling with new new things we're struggling with a technocrat government that can't really deal with running the government alongside this military and the national security and the remainder of the old regime with the old mentality with the old mind shift. so now we're we're set we're like we could do it this is this is the time in sudan's history where we could do it if we fail it's us failing but it still needs a lot of energy to go forward with we 1st met back in 2016 he was living in the nuba mountains at the time the middle of a war zone he took part in the belly knowledge talents program after making the award winnin