MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — In the early days of Sudan's 2019 revolution, Shajane Suliman brought sandwiches, coffee and mint tea to demonstrations in closed-off sections of Khartoum. But as hope made way for despair, she decided more than food was needed to nourish the movement.
Public outcry had sprung up against Sudan's longtime military dictator and his mismanagement of the country's economy. Throughout months of demonstrations, hundreds were killed or injured by security forces suppressing protests.
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Sudanese actress Shajan Suliman gestures while attending the screening of Sudan Remember Us movie, during the Marrakech International Film Festival in Morocco, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
Sudanese actress Shajan Suliman speaks to the press before attending the screening of Sudan, Remember Us movie during the Marrakech International Film Festival, in Morocco, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
This image released by MAD Distribution shows a scene from "Sudan, Remember Us." (MAD Distribution via AP)
Sudanese actress Shajan Suliman gestures while attending the screening of Sudan Remember Us movie, during the Marrakech International Film Festival, in Morocco, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
Sudanese actress Shajan Suliman gestures while attending the screening of Sudan Remember Us movie, during the Marrakech International Film Festival, in Morocco, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
This image released by MAD Distribution shows a scene from "Sudan, Remember Us." (MAD Distribution via AP)
This image released by MAD Distribution shows a scene from "Sudan, Remember Us." (MAD Distribution via AP)
So Suliman donned a gas mask and headed to the streets carrying posters adorned with lines like, “Souls cannot be killed, let alone ideas.”
A continent away, filmmaker Hind Meddeb was finishing “Paris Stalingrad,” a documentary about the plight of refugees living in encampments near the edge of the French capital. Sudanese refugees encouraged her to go to Khartoum and film their nascent revolution.
Such is the origin story of “Sudan, Remember Us," Meddeb's 75-minute documentary being shown in competition at the Marrakech Film Festival this week after screening at festivals in Venice and Toronto.
Sudan, a predominantly Arab country on the edge of sub-Saharan Africa, descended into civil war in 2023, as fighting erupted between the military and a paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces that grew out of Darfur’s notorious Janjaweed militia.
Though estimates are difficult to come by, at least 24,000 people have been killed and millions displaced in a conflict that has largely been eclipsed in the world’s attention by wars in the Middle East and Ukraine.
To Suliman, who ended up as one of its protagonists, the documentary’s purpose is similar to what she wrote on a poster five years ago: an effort to motivate a despairing public years after revolution failed to cement civilian rule.
The revolution, she said, felt like “a piece of heaven” despite the violence, full of music, poetry and optimism about Sudan's future.
“Everyone forgot or lost hope,” Suliman said in an interview with The Associated Press. “It’s different for us now than when the revolution started. We were together so it was easy. Now we need to change how we want to continue."
“Sudan, Remember Us” begins with a series of voice messages to Meddeb from April 2023, the month that civil war broke out. Activists describe their feelings of shock and disbelief about how what U.N. officials have called a “forgotten war" has ruined life and made their country unrecognizable.
Mostly, it brings viewers to 2019, the year that Sudan's military ousted President Omar al-Bashir, paving the way for power-sharing and a short-lived transitional government led by generals and civilians.
Largely shot on a handheld camera in a country that has at times blocked the internet, banned foreign news channels and arrested its own journalists, the movie is both a story of collective hope and a feat of reportage.
Meddeb’s observational approach and lingering on poems differs from gripping streaming-friendly protest documentaries such as Jehane Noujaim’s “The Square” (2013), Evgeny Afineevsky’s “Winter on Fire” (2015) or Kiwi Chow’s “Revolution of Our Times” (2021). She captures a revolution documentary’s requisite images — the chaos and terror as well as solidarity and joy of demonstrators facing off against security forces.
But the movie aims for a different kind of storytelling.
A former France 24 journalist, Meddeb gravitated toward documentary for the breathing room it offered to let stories unfold in an unpredictable way, she said in an interview.
“It’s a very spontaneous film. I was diving into what was happening and and filming what was inspiring me," she said at the Marrakech Film Festival.
What she found and was inspired by was a country described as a “land of literature” and a revolution in which women played a central role.
The protests rendered in the documentary pulsate with drums beating at marches and through the rhythm of poems recited at sit-ins. Meddeb takes the audience from phone camera-filmed street fighting to underground cafes to the Nile River as young people discuss their hopes for Sudan.
“The revolution was a time of beautiful feelings and projects,” one woman says after security forces killed more than 100 people in a June 2019 massacre. “It made you want to take part. A painting, a poem, anything to bring people together.”
This image released by MAD Distribution shows promotional art for the film "Sudan, Remember Us." (MAD Distribution via AP)
Sudanese actress Shajan Suliman gestures while attending the screening of Sudan Remember Us movie, during the Marrakech International Film Festival in Morocco, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
Sudanese actress Shajan Suliman speaks to the press before attending the screening of Sudan, Remember Us movie during the Marrakech International Film Festival, in Morocco, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
This image released by MAD Distribution shows a scene from "Sudan, Remember Us." (MAD Distribution via AP)
Sudanese actress Shajan Suliman gestures while attending the screening of Sudan Remember Us movie, during the Marrakech International Film Festival, in Morocco, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
Sudanese actress Shajan Suliman gestures while attending the screening of Sudan Remember Us movie, during the Marrakech International Film Festival, in Morocco, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
This image released by MAD Distribution shows a scene from "Sudan, Remember Us." (MAD Distribution via AP)
This image released by MAD Distribution shows a scene from "Sudan, Remember Us." (MAD Distribution via AP)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Stephen Curry swished a 3-pointer on his second shot from deep and raised his arms in delight when the ball went through.
He was looking to do the same on the last possession with Golden State down a point, but missed a long, straightaway 3-pointer.
No matter the result, Curry is back and healthy at long last for the Warriors after a right knee injury, and everyone at Chase Center celebrated right along with him in Golden State’s 117-116 loss to the Houston Rockets on Sunday night.
With Curry back, the Warriors hope to make it out of the play-in tournament.
"There were a lot of nerves all day, my family supporting me at home when I was a nervous wreck trying to pass the hours before I got to the arena but once you get back into your routine I've been doing it so long muscle memory takes over and the adrenalin takes over," Curry said. "I appreciate the fans and the reception and just the buzz that was in the arena because you know at a certain point you won't be able to tap into that. So very grateful, it was a beautiful day and now I can kind of settle in to how we're going to finish the year.”
Coming off the bench in the regular season for the first time in 14 years, Curry was greeted by a warm standing ovation and greetings on the big screen — he also expressed his gratitude on video — when he entered with 4:54 left in the opening quarter.
He immediately passed off for an assist on a dunk by Charles Bassey, who just signed with Golden State earlier in the day. Curry made a 3-pointer with 34 seconds remaining in the period.
“You can just feel it, we're back in the mix, we're back in the fight with Steph,” coach Steve Kerr said.
Curry finished with 29 points on 11-for-21 shooting and became the 26th player in NBA history with 9,000 field goals. He was 5 of 10 on 3s, playing 26 minutes.
Fans chanted “We want Steph! We want Steph!” during the fourth quarter, seemingly unaware of his minutes restriction.
This marked the first time he has come off the bench in a regular-season game since March 7, 2012, against Memphis. He last was a reserve in Game 4 of the first round of the 2022 playoffs during the Warriors’ last championship run.
Curry's pregame warmup is always a must-see show long before the main event, and the cheers were extra loud for his latest session now that he's finally back on the floor.
He was cheered before tipoff, too, and was supposed to play 24 minutes following a two-plus-month absence and 27 straight games sidelined because of a right knee injury.
He signed a few autographs after his shooting routine then missed his full-court heave before disappearing into the tunnel.
“He's one of the most beloved players in league history, Bay Area history in any sport and I think a long absence like this reminds everybody how lucky we are to see him, to watch him, to coach him, to play with him,” Kerr said. “So tonight's a special night because we're reminded of how lucky we've been and how lucky we still are.”
Kerr said before the game that it's still unclear how many of the remaining games Curry will play given Golden State has five contests in eight days with a back-to-back the rest of the way — and the expectation is he wouldn't play on consecutive nights.
The schedule will be determined by how Curry feels and input from Vice President of Player Health and Performance Rick Celebrini.
Soon, Curry will be starting again.
Rockets coach Ime Udoka knew Houston would have its hands full with No. 30 back.
“One of the best movers in the game,” Udoka said. "... Obviously, we’ve seen him enough and know some things that have hurt us in the past.”
Curry scrimmaged several times this past week to test his injured right knee, and he said Saturday it was never a consideration to shut it down for the rest of the season. Kerr hoped to have Curry and younger brother Seth finally play together.
At the 6:19 mark of the second quarter, they did — the first time brothers played together in Warriors franchise history, according to Elias. Seth Curry also has been injured much of the season.
Seth Curry did appear in six preseason games for Golden State in 2013 then played for the team’s G League Santa Cruz Warriors that year — with the brothers playing all of 100 seconds together during the fourth quarter of two games during that ’13 preseason.
“That was special,” Curry said. “We both had very difficult years, honestly him more than me with injuries. I was joking calling us the rehab brothers. It's been like that all year but to have that moment coming out of a timeout, talking about our matchups, I was having flashbacks to Charlotte Christian in high school my senior year, his sophomore year was the last time in an actual game. ... That was a dream come true to be honest, it hasn't really sunk in yet.”
Their mother, Sonya, was in the stands for the moment.
Curry warmed up in Kevin Durant's “Scoring Title” Nike KD 4s with former teammate Durant playing for the Rockets.
After Saturday's practice, Curry said dealing with the pain is part of his “new normal” and the offseason will require a significant reset.
The 38-year-old Curry initially expected to be playing right after the All-Star break, but the recovery was prolonged by some difficult moments when he would feel good, push hard then pay for it the following day.
The Warriors (36-42) lost their fourth straight game. They were 13-25 this season without Curry — including 9-18 during the recent stretch with him sidelined by patellofemoral pain syndrome.
Curry was thrilled to battle Durant again — knowing these moments won't last forever. The feeling was mutual.
“Amazing,” Durant said about Curry’s comeback night.
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Houston Rockets center Alperen Sengun (28) is hugged by Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) after an NBA basketball game, Sunday, April 5, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) reacts after making a 3-point basket during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Houston Rockets, Sunday, April 5, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry looks toward the Houston Rockets bench during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, April 5, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry, left, shoots a 3-point basket over Houston Rockets guard Aaron Holiday during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, April 5, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
Houston Rockets guard Reed Sheppard, left, kicks a pass by Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry, center, during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, April 5, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry celebrates after making a 3-point basket during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Houston Rockets, Sunday, April 5, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
Fans watch as Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry, foreground, warms up before an NBA basketball game against the Houston Rockets, Sunday, April 5, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry warms up before an NBA basketball game against the Houston Rockets, Sunday, April 5, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry warms up before an NBA basketball game against the Houston Rockets, Sunday, April 5, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry warms up before an NBA basketball game against the Houston Rockets, Sunday, April 5, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
Golden State Warriors forward Gui Santos, from left, reacts from the sideline with Quinten Post, Seth Curry, Will Richard and Stephen Curry during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Cleveland Cavaliers in San Francisco, Thursday, April 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry, left, smiles while shaking hands with Cleveland Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell after an NBA basketball game in San Francisco, Thursday, April 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Injured Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry, middle, smiles while talking with Cleveland Cavaliers guard James Harden (1) and guard Donovan Mitchell after an NBA basketball game in San Francisco, Thursday, April 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
