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03 February 2022

Suzannah Mirghani: Al-Sit (Sudan) - 32 Annual Cascade Festival of African Films 2022 - Women Filmmakers Week


Suzannah Mirghani
Al-Sit
Sudan
Fiction - 20min - 2021

Synopsis
In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, 15-year-old Nafisa has a crush on Babiker, but her parents have arranged her marriage to Nadir, a young Sudanese businessman living abroad. Nafisa’s grandmother Al-Sit, the powerful village matriarch, has her own plans for Nafisa’s future. But can the young girl choose for herself? A compassionate story from Sudan about women—both powerless and powerful—exploring opposing ends of the social chain and how these roles might be changing in a modernizing world.

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Sudanese-Russian scriptwriter, researcher and independent filmmaker Suzannah Mirghani is based in Qatar.

 
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