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NOV. 6 - NOV. 9, 2025

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I Am Bisha

Sat., 11/3, 4:15 p.m.
October 7, 2018• byErin Smith

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Roopa Gogineni, 2018

Over the past seven years, Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir has dropped thousands of bombs on villages across the Nuba Mountains. Ganja, the 26-year-old pacifist son of a rebel commander, witnessed a bomb drop meters from his home. He has never found a way to fight back until he became the man who controls Bashir’s head. Ganja and his friends in the Nuba Mountains acquired a puppet of the dictator and filmed a satirical web series called “Bisha TV.” Through Ganja’s work—and the comic escapades of two Sudanese strongmen puppets—we see an unlikely flowering of political humor and appreciate the true power of grassroots media. Screening with Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405.

14 minutes
Rozsa

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Major sponsorship of the 41 North Film Festival is provided by the Department of Humanities, the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, the College of Sciences and Arts, and the Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts.

Michigan Technological University is an Equal Opportunity Educational Institution/Equal Opportunity Employer, which includes providing equal opportunity for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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All events are free and open to the public. The festival will be held in the Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts on the Michigan Tech campus, with additional films hosted by MTU Film Board in Fisher 135.

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For more information about the festival, including how to become a festival sponsor or volunteer, please contact Erin Smith at ersmith@mtu.edu.

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