8th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

A Cry for Madiom is a rare experience exposing the shockingly harsh conditions of millions of ill-fated internally displaced Sudanese. The film drops you into a remote feeding centre, near the Darfur border, and leaves you there for 24 hours. To achieve this total sensorial experience, the film is created from mostly untouched, unedited material. Vancouver-based director, Erez T. Yanuv Barzilay, uses no narration and bases the film on original footage recorded a few years ago in Ajiep, one of the hunger centres in the hard-hit famine regions of southern Sudan.?Although the situation in southern Sudan has improved a bit, it is my sincere belief that A Cry for Madiom portrays the exact same situation which existed then, and which still exists at this very moment, in many of the displaced persons camps inside Sudan. Sadly, nothing has changed and the media’s gaze has been diverted elsewhere,? says Erez.