NEWS CENTER– The film "Queen of Cotton" tells the story of a young rural girl who finds herself in direct confrontation with capitalist changes threatening her environment, and leads a struggle to protect the rights of her town and its agricultural future.

The Sudanese film "Queen of Cotton" by director Suzana Mirghani was crowned with the Grand Prize of the International Maghreb Film Festival at the conclusion of its fifteenth edition in the Moroccan city of Oujda.

The film, starring Mahad Murtada, Rabha Mohammed Mahmoud, and Haram Bashir, tells the story of a rural girl named "Nafisa" who leads a struggle to protect her town's fields and its agricultural future against a businessman seeking to impose genetically modified cotton seeds. The film embodies the conflict between authenticity and environmental trafficking, and sheds light on women's leadership role in rural communities.

The fifteenth edition of the festival witnessed intense competition among a group of the most prominent Maghreb and Arab cinematic works, but "Queen of Cotton" succeeded in seizing the lead among the participating films thanks to its distinguished directorial vision and its urgent humanitarian and environmental cause that touched both the judging committees and the audience.