"Cotton Queen": Coming of Age Between Cotton and Resistance

Paris - 05/08/2026: This Wednesday, "Cotton Queen", an unusually tender yet resolute directorial debut, arrives in French cinemas. In 94 minutes, Sudanese director and screenwriter Suzannah Mirghani tells the story of Nafisa, a 15-year-old girl in a cotton-growing region along the Nile. Her daily life is shaped by work, family expectations and the stories of her grandmother Al-Sit, the village's respected matriarch.Al-Sit preserves the memory of resistance against British colonial rule. In Mirghani's film, this past does not lie around like a reverently stored family album. It shapes the way ...