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The Flaherty Presents: Opacity

A Camel

14m

Directed by Ibrahim Shaddad • 1981 • Sudan

This short by Ibrahim Shaddad of the Sudanese Film Group is a report from the life of a camel, most of which plays out in a dreary, small room—a sesame mill.

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