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SUMMARY:Cotton Queen | Film Screening and Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the screening of Cotton Queen\, register below! \n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\nCotton Queen is a 2025 internationally co-produced drama written and directed by Suzi Mirgani in her feature directorial debut. Set in a cotton-farming village in Sudan\, the film follows Nafisa\, a young woman raised on her grandmother’s stories of resistance against British colonial rule. When a businessman arrives with a development scheme centered on genetically engineered cotton\, Nafisa finds herself at the heart of a quiet but fierce power struggle that exposes the entanglements of land\, memory\, gender\, and exploitation. \n\nThe film had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival in September 2025 and has since received wide international acclaim\, including the Golden Alexander Award for Best Feature Film at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. With a haunting score by Amine Bouhafa and striking cinematography by Frida Marzouk\, Cotton Queen is a powerful meditation on resistance\, inheritance\, and the cost of so-called progress.
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