Free Bath screening for film on how communities in Sudan's Nuba Mountains survive famine
The film will be followed by a panel discussion
A new documentary about how communities in Sudan's Nuba Mountains are surviving hunger and conflict is to be shown at a free public screening in Bath.
The University of Bath says the film documents the impact of decades of wartime starvation, while highlighting the resilience of people seeking to preserve hope and dignity.
It is called 'Hunger is more dangerous than war': Stories of starvation from Sudan.
It was filmed in Sudan in 2025 and the university says it comes as Sudan faces a renewed threat of famine.
The screening will take place at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution on Tuesday 3rd November.
A panel discussion will follow, featuring Nuba Mountains community members and Dr Naomi Pendle, Reader in the University of Bath's Department of Social & Policy Sciences, who made the film.
She worked with Simon Wharf from the university's Media Production Unit, and Sudanese researchers Gisma Musa and Santina Sadia.
The screening is part of the Festival of Social Science 2026, which aims to show how social science research can help people understand issues affecting society.
Dr Naomi Pendle said conflict and increasingly uncertain weather conditions were combining to deepen the threat of hunger:
“At the moment, the world is worried about the El Niño weather system and the extreme hunger this will bring. The most impacted will be the hundreds of thousands of people who are already on the edge of starvation because of armed conflict.
“Our research at the University of Bath is grappling with how the politics of wartime starvation intersections with climatic uncertainties, often compounding suffering. For example, over the past four decades the Nuba Mountains region has seen armed conflict and battles over gold and land that have caused repeated famines, even though the area is highly fertile and a major food exporter.
“War in 2026 has again forced people off their farms and into the rocky mountains. In past famines, people survived in the mountains on wild foods. Yet, El Niño is making it uncertain if even these food will grow.”
The event is free, but advance booking is required.