Gasmelbari follows four members of 'The Sudanese Film Club' who have decided to renovate an abandoned, open-air, amphitheater-like cinema house. As they work hard to get the cinema owners on their side and get the place back in business, they reminisce about the past; about how they have been persecuted and mistreated, as artists in opposition. They read from old letters written in exile and dream of a Sudan where art and intellectual thought can be free.

At the same time, they face constant opposition from the nation's current political powers and religious authorities. "We are smarter, but they are stronger" they all agree. And it is in such dry-witted moments that we as spectators sense the friendship between the four, the solidarity that exists in their idealistic struggle.

Suhaib Gasmelbari puts the history of Sudanese film and cinema at the centre, while at the same time portraying a country in crisis.

Suhaib Gasmelbari (b. 1979) is a filmmaker from Sudan, and has lived in France since 2002. He studied film at the Université Paris 8, and has worked as a freelance camera operator and editor for Al Qarra, Al Jazeera and France 24. Gasmelbari has written and directed several shorts, both fiction and documentary. Talking About Trees is his first feature documentary, it had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it won two awards.