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 Nafisa choose for herself?
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受賞・ノミネート歴
1) Tampere Film Festival 2021 (Finland) Grand Prix
2) Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival 2021 (France) Canal+ Award
1. Ajyal Film Festival (Qatar, 2020)
4. Aspen ShortsFest (Colorado, US, 2021).
5. Malmö Arab Film Festival (Sweden, 2021).
6. Seattle International Film Festival (US, 2021).
7. The European Independent Film Festival (Paris, 2021).
8. San Francisco International Film Festival (California, US 2021)
監督
Suzannah Mirghani
Suzannah Mirghani is a writer, researcher, and independent filmmaker. She is of bicultural Sudanese and Russian backgrounds and interested in stories about the complexity of identity. Suzannah is the writer, director, and producer of AL-SIT (2020), which won the Grand Prix at Tampere Film Festival (2021) and the Canal+ Award at Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival (2021).