The first Sudanese film to be selected to feature at the Cannes Film Festival has stolen the spotlight – and for good reason. ‘Goodbye Julia’, directed by Mohamed Kordofani, starts in 2005 after the end of a civil war between Khartoum and the separatist south, and ends as South Sudan gains independence in 2011. It tells the story of how a covered-up murder brings a southern Sudanese woman, Julia, into contact with a northern Sudanese woman, Mona, and her overbearing conservative husband. Tacklin