Film: COTTON QUEEN + Panel talk
Schedule
Sun Apr 26 2026 at 05:45 pm to 08:45 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Biograf Panora Malmö | Malmö, SN
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✨ Screening in collaboration with Ubuntu Malmö Filmfestival.Panel discussion after the film about the role of the transatlantic slave trade in cotton production, Malmö’s colonial legacy, women’s experiences and the textile industry of today.
Participants:
🔸 Malcolm Jallow, Chairman of Panafrican movement for Justice
🔸 Norah Dexborg, Student, activist and organizer with a focus on Afrophobia and intersectional feminism.
🔸 Pål Brunnström, researcher and teacher at the Department of Urban Studies, and director of the Institute for Studies in Malmö History (IMH). Pål is currently researching the Swedish cotton textile industry and its links to colonialism and is the editor of a recently published anthology on the subject, Weaving it together.
Shown in Panora, Sal. 2
Film: COTTON QUEEN
Director: Suzannah Mirghani
Country: Germany, France, Palestine, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan
Year: 2025
Duration: 94 min.
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English
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In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, teenage Nafisa is raised on heroic tales of battling British colonizers 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.
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Nafisa bor med sin mormor Al-Sit, en legendarisk figur som kuvade engelsmännen och styr bland bomullsfälten. När en utländsk affärsman kommer till byn ser byborna en chans till förändring, Nafisa likaså. En fascinerande film om traditioner, mänskliga rättigheter, politik och familj – i vacker inramning av den sudanesiska landsbygden.
IFEMA+ International Female+ Film Festival Malmö is organised by Imágenes del Sur/Bilder från Söder with the support of: Malmö Stad kulturstöd, Svenska Filminstitutet, Film i Skåne AB, ABF Malmö Sydväst, Region Skåne.
In collaboration with: Antirasistiska Filmdagar i Malmö, BUFF, Cineville, FFF, Filmcentrum Syd, Fish Tank, Folkets Bio Malmö, Kino, Kvarnby Folkhögskola, MAFF, OFF, Panora, Röda Korset vändkrets Malmö, Sveriges Filmregissörer, Draken Film, Ubuntu Filmfestival.
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Where is it happening?
Biograf Panora Malmö, Friisgatan 19C, SE-214 22 Malmö, Sverige, Malmö, SwedenEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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