Sara Gadallah Gubara Al-Faki Ibrahim (Arabic: سارة جاد الله جبارة, romanized: Sāra Jādallah Jubāra; born 23 April 1956) is a Sudanese competition swimmer and film director.

Further to her lifelong activity as a sportswoman, she became noted as a pioneering female filmmaker in her country, first assisting her father, Gadalla Gubara, and later directing her own films.

[7] She joined Al-Kawkab sports club in Khartoum Bahri to practice swimming and was trained by Bayoumi Mohammed Salem, who helped develop her skills.

[12][13] Sara also stood out in the most difficult style of swimming, the butterfly stroke, which needs flexibility and high physical strength, where she also excelled and achieved records.

However, she considered the 1974 Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli race (36 km) in Italy her most important foreign participation ever, where she won second place at the amateurs' level,[14][15] and 23 (out of 25) in the professional category.

[22] Following in her father's footsteps as a filmmaker, Sara Gadalla first joined the College of Fine and Applied Art (Khartoum), but did not complete her studies there.

[6] Sara is considered one of the first and rare Sudanese female film directors and has contributed significantly to the history of cinema in Sudan.

[15] After her father had lost his eyesight at the age of 80, Sara assisted him with his later film projects,[24] including an adaptation of the French novel Les Misérables (2006)[25][26] and his autobiography "My life and the cinema.

"[24] Her 2004 documentary "The Lover of Light" is a metaphor for Gadalla Gubara's eyesight debacle and his desire to use film to raise awareness of social concerns.

After twelve years, she returned to Sudan and established her studio Belissar Art Production, where she worked as a camerawoman, director, and editor.

[31][33] Similarly, she was also working on a film about Sudanese women in all political, artistic and sports fields, with a focus on pioneering personalities.