Person

Hussein Shariffe

Directing · 1934–2005 · Omdurman, Sudan

Hussein Shariffe (حسين شريف) (7 July 1934 – 21 January 2005, Omdurman, Sudan) was a Sudanese filmmaker, painter, poet and university lecturer at the University of Khartoum. After years of schooling in Khartoum and in Alexandria, Egypt, he studied modern history and fine arts in England, where he had his first exhibition in London's Gallery One in 1957. Back in Sudan in the 1970s, he worked both at the Ministry of Culture and at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Khartoum. In 1973 he began a second artistic career as filmmaker, producing several documentary films and cinematographic essays on subjects such as traditional rites or history in Sudan, as well as on life in exile during his later years in Cairo.

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  Diary in Exile

  Director

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  Tigers Are Better Looking

  Writer

• The Throwing of Fire

  Director

• Not the Waters of the Moon

  Director

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  The Dislocation of Amber

  Writer

• 1993Diary in ExileDirector
• 1985Not the Waters of the MoonDirector
• 1979Tigers Are Better LookingWriter
• 1975The Dislocation of AmberWriter
• 1973The Throwing of FireDirector