By Suzannah Mirghani

Cotton Queen

Tickets

Sunday 8 March – 17h30
Grütli - Salle Simon
Rue du Général-Dufour 16, 1204 Geneva

Thursday 12 March – 18h45
Grütli - Salle Langlois
Rue du Général-Dufour 16, 1204 Geneva

In a cotton-growing village in Sudan, young Nafisa grows up listening to stories of heroic battles against British colonial rule, passed down by her grandmother, Al-Sit. When a young businessman, heir to a vast estate, arrives with plans to cultivate genetically modified cotton, Nafisa is drawn into a power struggle from which neither she nor her community emerges unscathed.

Swiss Premiere
Section : Competition - Fiction
Country : Sudan, France, Germany, Egypt, Qatar, Palestine, Saudi Arabia
Original language : Arabic
Subtitles : French, English
Duration
93’
Year
2025
Director
Suzannah Mirghani
Producers
Strange Bird
Maneki Films
Philistine Films
Film Clinic
Mad Solutions
Writer
Suzannah Mirghani
Casting
Mihad Murtada
Rabha Mohamed Mahmoud
Talaat Fareed
Haram Bisheer
Mohamed Musa
Hassan Kassala
Photography
Frida Marzouk
Editing
Amparo Mejías
Simon Blasi
Frank Müller
Music
Amine Bouhafa
Son
Emmanuel Zouki
Laure Arto