Part of Contemporary Arab Cinema

Directed by Suzannah Mirghani (2025)

With Mihad Murtada, Rabha Mohamed Mahmoud, Talaat Fareed, Haram Bisheer

In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, teenage Nafisa is raised on heroic tales of battling British colonizers 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 center 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.