In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, Nafisa lives a simple life, picking cotton and learning from her grandmother. The arrival of a young Sudanese businessman, threatens to change their way of life.
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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