Drama
Germany, France ,Palestine ,Qatar ,Saudi Arabia, Sudan
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 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.
Cast
- Mihad Murtada (Nafisa)
- Rabha Mohamed Mahmoud(Al-Sit)
- Talaat Fareed(Babiker)
- Haram Bisheer (Aisha)
- Mohamed Musa(Bilal)
- Hassan Kassala(Nadir)
- Fatma Farid (Faiza )
- Aya Yassin Altageel (Khadija )
- Tagali Magdy (Farida )
- Tibr Magdy Al ( Toma)
Crew
- Scriptwriter: Suzannah Mirghani
- DOP: Frida Marzouk
- Editors: Amparo Mejías, Simon Blasi, Frank Müller
- Music : Amine Bouhafa
- Set Designer:Marwa Amer
- Art Direction:Pierre Glemet
Strange Bird GmbH (Germany), Jip Film and Verleih, Storming Donkey Productions, Maneki Films (France), Philistine Films (Palestine)
Co-production: Film Clinic and MAD Solutions (Egypt)
Producer(s):
Caroline Daube, Didar Domehri
Co-Producers: Annemarie Jacir, Ossama Bawardi, Jessica Khoury, Mohamed Hefzy, Alaa Karkouti, Maher Diab,Jutta Feit,Julia I. Peters,Stefanie Plattner,Suzannah Mirghani,Gordon Spragg,Michael Arnon,Laurin Dietrich
- Venice International Film Festival, Italy (Critics’ Week)
- Chicago International Film Festival, USA
- Doha Film Festival, Qatar – MENA Premiere
- Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Greece
- Arab Film Festival, London
- Hamburg Film Festival
- Schlingel International Film Festival for Children and Young Audiences, Germany
- Carthage Film Festival, Tunisia
- Mena Film Festival, Canada
- Golden Alexander “Theo Angelopoulos” Award for Best Feature Film, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Greece
- TV5 Monde Award of the First Feature Film, Carthage Film Festival, Tunisia
- Audience Award, Doha Film Festival, Qatar
