Talal Afifi (Arabic: طلال عفيفي; born 1976, in Hamburg, Germany) is a Sudanese film curator and producer.
At that time, there were no training and production facilities for filmmaking in Sudan, and most cinemas in the country had been neglected or closed down during the 30 years under the Islamist and military government of Omar al-Bashir.
[1][2] As part of the activities of the German cultural centre - Goethe-Institut - in Sudan, Afifi acted as coordinator of the institute's newly established film production & training project from 2009 to 2012.
[12] In 2016, they also hosted a workshop by the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) that stressed the necessity for establishing copyright laws in Sudan.
[15] Leading up to its release in 2019, SFF participated in producing the award-winning feature film You Will Die at Twenty by Amjad Abu Alala,[1] where Afifi appeared in the role of Alnoor.