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Cotton Queen

Suzannah MIRGHANI

Sudan, Germany, France, Palestine, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia
2025
93min
12 +
DCP
color

Korean Premiere

Synopsis

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.

Code	Time	Theater	Grade
Cotton Queen007	2026-08-21 \| 13:50 - 15:23	MEGABOX Sinchon 2
Cotton Queen087	2026-08-24 \| 17:00 - 18:33	MEGABOX Sinchon 5

Director

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.

Credit

ProducerDidar DOMEHRI
Cast Mihad MURTADA, Rabha Mohamed MAHMOUD, Talaat FAREED, Haram BISHEER, Mohamed MUSA, Hassan KASSALA, Fatma FARID, Aya Yassin ALTAGEEL, Tagali MAGDY, Tibr MAGDY
Screenwriter Suzannah MIRGHANI
Cinematographer Frida MARZOUK
Editor Amparo MEJÍAS, Simon BLASI, Frank MÜLLER
Sound Emmanuel ZOUKI, Laure ARTO