About the director

Subahi is a filmmaker from Khartoum, Sudan who is passionate about documentaries. Having been born, raised and completed his higher education in Sudan, Subahi worked closely with the Sudan Film Factory Initiative. While also attending different filmmaking training sessions in Egypt, South Africa, India and Germany.

While concentrating on his documentary work, as a director, cinematographer and editor, Subahi also worked with different Sudanese INGOs on topics ranging from education, Development, youth and women empowerment among others like UNICEF, UNDP, IOM, Goethe Institute, British Council and the EU delegation to Sudan. His work experience over the past decade allowed him to tackle MADANIYA as his first feature-length documentary.

FILM FIVE is an award-winning boutique production company based in Berlin, dedicated to producing high-end, creative documentaries and fiction films for local and global audiences. 

Over FILM FIVE’s lifespan, its productions have succeeded in taking home a variety of prestigious awards.

- KOKA, THE BUTCHER won Best Short at the 2018 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.

- DON’T FORGET ME won the 35. Torino Film Festival 2017 and OSLO won just recently the nomination for the European film Awards. 

Florian Schewe studied directing at the Film University in Potsdam-Babelsberg for five years. His graduating film 'Lebendkontrolle' won the German section at the BERLINALE in 2010 and the German Camera Award among others. 

His documentary ‘We were rebels’, on which he also served as an associate producer, toured festivals worldwide, DOK.FEST MUNICH, IDFA, MONTREAL, won the BROOKLYN FILM FESTIVAL and received the prestigious GRIMME AWARD in 2015.