COTTON QUEEN
synopsis
In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, teenage Nafisa is raised on heroic tales of battling British colonizers 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.
international title: | Cotton Queen |
original title: | Cotton Queen |
country: | Germany, France, Palestine, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan |
sales agent: | Totem Films |
year: | 2025 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Suzannah Mirghani |
film run: | 93' |
screenplay: | Suzannah Mirghani |
cast: | Mihad Murtada, Rabha Mohamed Mahmoud, Talaat Fareed, Haram Bisheer, Mohamed Musa, Hassan Kassala |
cinematography by: | Frida Marzouk |
film editing: | Amparo Mejías, Simon Blasi, Frank Müller |
art director: | Pierre Glemet |
costumes designer: | Simba Elmur |
music: | Amine Bouhafa |
producer: | Caroline Daube, Didar Domehri, Annemarie Jacir, Ossama Bawardi, Jessica Khoury, Mohamed Hefzy, Alaa Karkouti, Maher Diab |
production: | Strange Bird, Maneki Films, Philistine Films (PS), Film Clinic (EG), Mad Solutions (EG), Doha Film Institute (QA), Red Sea Fund (SA) |