Al-Sit
2021 short film directed by Suzannah Mirghani
Al-Sit is a 2021 Sudanese drama short film directed by Suzannah Mirghani and co-produced by the director herself with Eiman Mirghani for Suzannah Mirghani Films. The film stars Mihad Murtada and Rabeha Mohammed Mahmoud with Mohammed Magdi Hassan, Haram Basher, and Alsir Majoub in supporting roles. The film is about Nafisa, a 15-year-old young woman, who is faced by an arranged marriage in a cotton-farming village in Sudan. The film qualified to enter the competition category for short films at the Academy Awards (Oscars), after winning the Grand Prix award at the Tampere International Film Festival 2021 in Finland. It has won 23 international awards, including three Academy Award qualifying prizes in 2021.
Cast
Mihad Murtada as Nafisa
Rabeha Mohammed Mahmoud as Al-Sit
Mohammed Magdi Hassan as Nadir
Haram Basher as Nafisa's Mother
Alsir Majoub as Bilal
Murtada Eltayeb as Driver
Talaat Farid as Babiker
Fatma Farid as Faiza
Intisar Osman as Faiza's Mother
Abdalla Jacknoon as Babiker's Father
Production and critical reception
The film was shot in and around Khartoum and Aezzazh village in Sudan. It had its international premiere at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival in France on 2 February 2021, and then premiered on 9 April 2021 in the United States and home Premiere in the first-ever hybrid edition of the Doha Film Institute's (DFI) 8th Ajyal Film Festival.
Receiving her award for Best Short film of the SUDU Prize at the Quibdó Africa Film Festival in Pointe-Noire, Mirhani said: "We made this film with a 99 percent Sudanese cast and crew (and 1 percent Lebanese). In fact, filmmaking in Sudan is finally beginning to flourish after decades of prohibition and neglect."
Awards and accolades
Mirghani won the International Short Films Competition Award for the Best Director at the Beirut International Women Film Festival. At the Busan International Film Festival, the film won a Jury Prize in International Competition.
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