苏珊娜·米尔加尼的首部剧情片由拉巴·穆罕默德·马哈茂德饰演一位村庄女族长，她的表演令人印象深刻。影片探讨了英国帝国主义的长期影响以及妇女权利问题。片中一位女族长说：‘我的过去由我决定。’
Suzannah Mirghani’s first feature contains a powerful performance by Rabha Mohamed Mahmoud as a village’s elder woman and tackles the long shadow of British imperialism and women’s rights‘I decide my past,” says a village matriarch in this intriguingly political and poetic drama from Suzannah Mirghani, making her feature debut – and with it becoming the first Sudanese woman to direct a feature. (She was forced to cancel the original shoot in Sudan when war broke out in 2023, moving production to Egypt.)
这部充满政治意味和诗意的电影标志着苏珊娜·米尔加尼的导演处女作，她也因此成为首位执导剧情片的苏丹女性。
It’s a film with things to say about the long shadow of the British empire, neocolonialism, women’s rights and female genital mutilation.
由于2023年苏丹爆发战争，原定在苏丹的拍摄被迫中断，最终转至埃及完成。
But it mostly says it all without undermining its sense of mystery and shivers of magic realism.
影片深刻揭示了英国帝国主义、新殖民主义、妇女权利以及女性割礼等议题，同时保持了神秘感和魔幻现实主义的风格。
We’re in present day Sudan, where village elder Al-Sit (Rabha Mohamed Mahmoud) is an iron-willed woman not to be messed with.
故事发生在现代苏丹，女族长阿尔-西特（拉巴·穆罕默德·马哈茂德饰演）是一位意志坚定的女性，无人敢轻视她。
村民们流传着她年轻时将英国人赶出小镇的传说，甚至有小孩兴奋地讲述她如何杀死了最后一个英国人……这真的可能是事实吗？
Everyone knows the story of how as a young girl she ran the British out of town; small children in the village gleefully tell the story of how she slaughtered every single last one of them. Can it possibly be true?
她的过去创伤是影片的核心，马哈茂德充满魔力的表演令人难以忘怀。
The trauma of her past is at the centre of the film, and Mahmoud’s witchy performance, fierce and powerful, is utterly compelling.