Cotton Queen (ctba)

2 Tony Wilson Place

Sat 3 Oct · 15:30

134m · Film

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Dir Suzannah Mirghani/SD DE FR 2025/94 mins/Arabic wEng ST Mihad Murtada, Rabha Mohamed Mahmoud, Talaat Fareed 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 centre 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.

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