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Interview with Suzannah Mirghani on "Cotton Queen"

Interview with Suzannah Mirghani on "Cotton Queen"

Moviebreak Interviews und Festivals vor 6 Monaten

"If you have more diverse people making the selections, then you have more diversity"

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War, patriarchal structures, and the absence of an established
local film industry couldn’t hold Suzannah Mirghani back from
realizing her first feature film which is a special kind of debut:
the first fiction feature from Sudan directed by a woman and only
the second Sudanese feature production to screen at the Venice Film
Festival. From there Cotton Queen went on a prestigious festival
journey, earning prizes at Thessaloniki, Geneva, Doha, and Luxor.
The nuanced story of a Sudanese teenage girl’s emancipation against
the backdrop of her village’s complicated past and uncertain future
is now in German cinemas. During its screening at the Arabic Film
Festival Berlin, the Sudanese-Russian filmmaker spoke with Lidanoir
about the Sudanese war’s impact on the production, overcoming moral
skepticism about young women acting, and the return of colonialist
capitalism in a globalized world.