66th Cork International Film Festival

International Shorts 2

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6 films in package
International Shorts 2
Finding that comfort zone in life’s great swirl of uncertainty.
Such Small Hands
At a girls' orphanage, a new arrival invents a manipulative night game
Fading Snow (Ostatnie Śniegi)
Mania leaves her safe place - the theatre - and sets off to find her way back home in the broken city of Warsaw
August Sky
As the Amazon burns, a nurse in Sao Paulo finds herself drawn to a neo-Pentecostal church
Al-Sit
An arranged marriage in a cotton-farming village in Sudan. Does 15-year-old Nafisa have a choice?
There is Exactly Enough Time (Es ist genau genug Zeit)
Oskar Salomonowitz, the twelve-year-old son of the filmmakers, had already drawn 206 pictures for a flip book when he died in an accident
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In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, 15-year-old Nafisa has a crush on Babiker, but her parents have arranged her marriage to Nadir, a young Sudanese businessman. Nafisa’s grandmother Al-Sit, the powerful village matriarch, has her own plans for Nafisa's future.


  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    20 minutes
  • Language
    Arabic
  • Country
    Sudan, Quatar
  • Premiere
    Irish Premiere
  • Note
    Subtitled
  • Director
    Suzannah Mirghani
  • Screenwriter
    Suzannah Mirghani
  • Producer
    Suzannah Mirghani, Eiman Mirghani
  • Cast
    Mihad Murtada, Rabeha Mahmoud, Mohammed Magdi, Haram Basher, Alsir Mahjoub
  • Cinematographer
    Khalid Awad
  • Editor
    Abdelrahim Kattab, Suzannah Mirghani
  • Composer
    Falah Hannoun
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