Cotton Queen
Mon, Oct 26
|STRAZEkino, Greifswald
OmdtU - In her debut feature film, Sudanese-Russian director Suzannah Mirghani tells the story of a young cotton picker who seeks her own path in life amidst a tangle of external influences. Coming-of-age drama / DE, FR, PS, SD 2025 / Director: Suzannah Mirghani / 93 mins / with German subtitles
Time & Location
Oct 26, 2026, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
STRAZEkino, Greifswald, Stralsunder Str. 46, 17489 Greifswald, Deutschland
About the event
Nafisa (15) lives in a traditional cotton-growing village in Sudan. It’s the summer holidays and she has to help her grandmother with the cotton harvest alongside her friends. She’s also in love for the first time – with a boy from the village.
Her grandmother Al-Sit, the respected matriarch, holds the village firmly in her grasp and passes on her knowledge to Nafisa.
The arrival of Nadir, a young Sudanese businessman from abroad, threatens to shake up village life with new technologies in cotton farming. Nafisa’s parents sense an opportunity to marry their daughter to Nadir and thus increase the family’s wealth.
Torn between her family’s demands and her own desire for independence, Nafisa must find her own path between tradition and modernity.
Doors open: from 7.30 pm
Start: 8 pm