Suzannah Mirghani

Suzannah Mirghani is a Sudanese-Russian filmmaker, researcher, and media studies/museum studies graduate. She is the writer, director, and producer of AL-SIT (2020), which won 48 awards, including the Canal+ Award at the 2021 Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, and 6 Academy Award qualifying prizes at Tampere Film Festival; LA Shorts; BronzeLens; New Orleans Film Festival; AFI Fest; and Interfilm Berlin. Her social media satire VIRTUAL VOICE (2021) premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival; and KAMALA IBRAHIM ISHAG: STATES OF ONENESS (2022) was commissioned by the Serpentine Galleries. Suzannah's poem "Some Behavioral Characteristics of the Sudanese Honey Bee (Apis mellifera sudanensis)" was published in the Black SWANA issue of Mizna 23, no. 2 (2023). Her first feature film, COTTON QUEEN, won the ArteKino Award at L'Atelier de la Cinéfondation at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022, and premiered at the Venice Film Festival, Critics' Week.