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This year's Cannes Film Festival will showcase the first film from Sudan ever to be included in its official selection. Goodbye Julia is a relationship drama set in Khartoum before South Sudan gained independence in 2011.

It focuses on the story of two Sudanese women from very different backgrounds – one a northerner, the other a southerner – and reveals how racism has shaped their lives.

Director Mohamed Kordofani shares with Tom Brook his mixed feelings – his elation at the film's red carpet treatment, yet concern given the conflict currently going on in Sudan.