Sara Gadalla Gubara

Sara Gadalla Gubara (born 1956) is a Sudanese filmmaker and one of the first Sudanese women to graduate from the Animation Department of the Cairo Higher Institute of Cinema, in 1984. She is the daughter of the pioneering Sudanese filmmaker Gadalla Gubara and transitioned from a career in competitive swimming into filmmaking, assisting her father's work especially after he lost his eyesight. Her films include Viva Sara in 1984, a semi-documentary short about her own swimming achievements, and The Lover of Light in 2004, a documentary that uses her father's loss of vision as a central metaphor. She has also made documentaries addressing female genital mutilation and women's rights in Sudan, and produced an animated adaptation of the Sudanese fairy tale Fatima Al-Samha.