Suzannah Mirghani's Cotton Queen has won the grand fiction prize at the 24th International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) in Geneva. The film follows a Sudanese girl assessing her future on a plantation and was praised for avoiding sentimentality while delivering a powerful narrative.
The documentary grand prize went to A Fox Under a Pink Moon by Soraya Akhlaghi and Mehrdad Oskouei. Letters from Wolf Street by Arjun Talwar also received recognition.
The 2026 edition of FIFDH, held 6-15 March, brought together filmmakers, activists, journalists and public figures to examine conflicts in Gaza, Sudan and the DRC, political repression, attacks on minority rights and forms of collective resistance. The festival's Impact Days industry programme highlighted cinema as a tool for social change, honouring five projects tackling HIV stigma, democratic resistance, extremism, inequality in science and resilience in Gaza.
Source: cineuropa.org