COTTON QUEEN

Suzannah Mirghani |
Germany, France, Palestine, Sudan |
2025 |
93Min |
Arabic
In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, teenage Nafisa is raised on heroic tales of battling British colonisers told by her grandmother, the village matriarch Al-Sit. But when a young businessman arrives from abroad with a new development plan and genetically engineered cotton, Nafisa becomes the center of a power play to determine the future of the village. Awakening to her own strength, Nafisa sets out to save the cotton fields and herself. Neither she nor her community will ever be the same again.
Suzannah Mirghani
Caroline Daube, Didar Domehri
Frida Marzouk
Mihad Murtada, Rabha Mohamed Mahmoud, Talaat Fareed, Haram Bisheer, Mohamed Musa, Hassan Kassala, Fatma Farid, Aya Yassin Altageel, Tagali Magdy, Tibr Magdy

Screenings

23 Jul 19:00 Suncoast 1
25 Jul 19:30 Suncoast 7

Suzannah Mirghani

Suzannah Mirghani is a Sudanese-Russian filmmaker and editor at Georgetown University in Qatar. Her short film Al-Sit (2020) is on Netflix Middle East and won the Canal+ Award at Clermont-Ferrand, among other prizes. Her recent shorts include Virtual Voice (2021) and Kamala Ibrahim Ishag: States of Oneness (2022), commissioned by Serpentine Galleries. Cotton Queen (2025) won the ArteKino Award at L’Atelier de la Cinéfondation at Cannes Film Festival in 2022, and is Suzannah’s first feature film.

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