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Sudanese-Russian filmmaker Suzannah Mirghani is an Editor/Assistant Director for Publications at the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS), Georgetown University in Qatar. She is the first Sudanese woman to write and direct a full-length narrative feature film. Her short film Al-Sit (2020) — the proof-of-concept for Cotton Queen — is on Netflix Middle East and won the Canal+ Award at Clermont-Ferrand. Her short Kamala Ibrahim Ishag: States of Oneness (2022) was commissioned by Serpentine Galleries.
Cotton Queen premiered at Venice and won the top prize at Thessaloniki.
Link to film page: Cotton Queen
Filmography: Cotton Queen (2025) · Kamala Ibrahim Ishag: States of Oneness (2022) · Virtual Voice (2021) · Al-Sit (2020) · Caravan (2016) · Hind's Dream (2014)
Sudanese-Russian filmmaker Suzannah Mirghani is an Editor/Assistant Director for Publications at the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS), Georgetown University in Qatar. She is the first Sudanese woman to write and direct a full-length narrative feature film. Her short film Al-Sit (2020) — the proof-of-concept for Cotton Queen — is on Netflix Middle East and won the Canal+ Award at Clermont-Ferrand. Her short Kamala Ibrahim Ishag: States of Oneness (2022) was commissioned by Serpentine Galleries.
Cotton Queen premiered at Venice and won the top prize at Thessaloniki.
Link to film page: Cotton Queen
Filmography: Cotton Queen (2025) · Kamala Ibrahim Ishag: States of Oneness (2022) · Virtual Voice (2021) · Al-Sit (2020) · Caravan (2016) · Hind's Dream (2014)