PROMIS LE CIEL (PROMISED SKY)

In the organizer's words:

AFRIKAMERA: PROMIS LE CIEL (PROMISED SKY)

Erige Sehiri I Tunisia/ France/ Qatar 2025 I OmeU I 95 min

TUES 11 NOV I 19:30 I CITY KINO WEDDING

Before the screening: SPOKEN WORD PERFORMANCE by Genifer Marione Habbasch.

Followed by Q+A with the director

Three migrant women from Côte d'Ivoire live together in Tunis like a family of choice. Their everyday life is characterized by a tense social climate and daily discrimination.

Ivorian pastor Marie has been living there for ten years and runs an underground church in her illegally rented apartment. Her home becomes a refuge for Jolie, a determined student from a wealthy family, and the lively Naney, who had to leave her child behind in Côte d'Ivoire when she fled.

A special community develops in which each of the women tries to build a new life in her own way. However, when they take in four-year-old Kenza, whose parents died in a shipwreck while fleeing, their solidarity is put to the test ...

The second feature film by French-Tunisian director ERIGE SEHIRI tells the moving story of the lives of African migrants on their own continent from a female North African perspective. PROMIS LE CIEL opened this year's Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes International Film Festival.

ERIGE SEHIRI is a French-Tunisian director, producer and former journalist whose work bridges the gap between documentary realism and narrative cinema. Sehiri began her film career in documentary and directed the acclaimed RAILWAY MEN (2018), which captures the daily struggle of Tunisian railroad workers. In 2022, she wrote, directed and produced her first feature film UNDER THE FIG TREES, an intimate portrait of youth, labor and fleeting moments of connection set in a rural fig grove. The film premiered at the 54th Directors' Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival.

In addition to her work as a director, Sehiri is an active advocate for freedom of expression and media literacy. She is co-founder of the media company INKYFADA and the Tunisian NGO Al KHATT. She is also a founding member of the collective Rawiyat - Sisters in Film, which supports female filmmakers in the Arab world and the diaspora. PROMIS LE CIEL is her second feature film.

More information: AFRIKAMERA Film Festival.

Price information:

Tickets: €9, reduced: €6 plus booking fee www.citykinowedding.de