Like so many great stories, film director Phil Cox’s documentary about Khartoum starts in a jail cell … his own. In 2017, after making a film for Channel 4 News, he was thrown in prison for three months in the Sudanese capital - during the rule of dictator President Omar al-Bashir. Seeing his incarceration as an opportunity, Phil, 50, from Hackney, east London, an experienced hand working in conflict news, started making contacts. He tells The Mirror : “I made a lot of friends. I met anyone who