{"id":2168260,"date":"2025-11-20T10:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2168260"},"modified":"2025-11-20T10:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:43:06","slug":"suzannah-mirghani-on-how-thessaloniki-winner-cotton-queen-shines-a-light-on-sudanese-culture-theres-a-sense-of-being-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/suzannah-mirghani-on-how-thessaloniki-winner-cotton-queen-shines-a-light-on-sudanese-culture-theres-a-sense-of-being-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"Suzannah Mirghani on How Thessaloniki Winner \u2018Cotton Queen\u2019 Shines a Light on Sudanese Culture: \u2018There\u2019s a Sense of Being Seen\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As the Doha Film Festival opens its inaugural edition with a robust Spotlight on Sudanese cinema and music, the program arrives at a moment when the country\u2019s films, like its people, are fighting to stay visible. In a year marked by ongoing war and mass displacement, Dff<\/a>\u2019s showcase feels both celebratory and, quietly, political. Nowhere is that more palpable than in \u201cCotton Queen<\/a>,\u201d the debut feature from Sudanese filmmaker Suzannah Mirghani<\/a>, screening in the festival\u2019s International Feature Film Competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cCotton Queen<\/a>\u201d has already begun drawing critical attention, winning the Golden Alexander for best feature film at the Thessaloniki Intl. Film Festival earlier this month, a milestone for both the film and the growing visibility of Sudanese cinema.<\/p>\n

Sudanese audiences abroad have encountered the film at festivals from Venice, where it world premiered in Critics\u2019 Week, to Chicago, often arriving in small but passionate cohorts. \u201cThe first reaction…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the Doha Film Festival opens its inaugural edition with a robust Spotlight on Sudanese cinema and music, the program arrives at a moment when the country\u2019s films, like its people, are fighting to stay visible. In a year marked by ongoing war and mass displacement, Dff\u2019s showcase feels both celebratory and, quietly, political. Nowhere […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2168261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2168260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Suzannah-Mirghani-on-How-Thessaloniki-Winner-\u2018Cotton-Queen-Shines-a.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2168260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2168262,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168260\/revisions\/2168262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2168261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2168260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2168260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2168260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}