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Promised Sky
🎪 39 Herceg Novi Film Festival📅 24. August · 21:00
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Country: France, Tunisia, Qatar
Year: 2025
Duration: 95 minutes
Cast:
Mari, a stepdaughter and former journalist from Ivory Coast, has been living in Tunisia for ten years. Her home becomes a refuge for Nejni, a young mother seeking a better future, and Dzoli, a determined student carrying her family’s dreams on her shoulders. The arrival of a little orphaned girl calls their solidarity into question amid a tense social climate, while simultaneously revealing their vulnerability and strength.
Erige Sehiri is a French-Tunisian director, producer and former journalist whose work connects documentary realism with fiction. She began her film career in the field of documentary, directing Railway Men (2018), which depicts the everyday challenges faced by Tunisian railway workers.
In 2022, she wrote, directed and produced her first feature film, Under the Fig Trees, an intimate portrait of youth, work and fleeting moments of connection, set in a rural fig orchard. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was selected to represent Tunisia at the 2023 Academy Awards.
The Promised Sky, her second feature film, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival as part of the official Un Certain Regard selection.
Year: 2025
Duration: 95 minutes
- Production: Maneki Films, Henia Production
- Director: Erige Sehiri
- Screenplay: Erige Sehiri, Anna Ciennik, Malika Cécile Louati
- Producers: Didar Domehri, Erige Sehiri
- Director of Photography: Petda Marzouk
- Art Director: Amel Rezgui
- Editing: Nadia Ben Rachid
- Costume Design: Imen Khalledi
- Sound: Aymen Laabidi, Alexis Jung, Simon Apostolou
Cast:
- Aïssa Maiga
- Debora Lobe Naney
- Laetitia Ky
- Estelle Kenza Dogbo
- Foued Zaazaa
- Mohamed Grayaa
- Touré Blamassi
Mari, a stepdaughter and former journalist from Ivory Coast, has been living in Tunisia for ten years. Her home becomes a refuge for Nejni, a young mother seeking a better future, and Dzoli, a determined student carrying her family’s dreams on her shoulders. The arrival of a little orphaned girl calls their solidarity into question amid a tense social climate, while simultaneously revealing their vulnerability and strength.
Erige Sehiri is a French-Tunisian director, producer and former journalist whose work connects documentary realism with fiction. She began her film career in the field of documentary, directing Railway Men (2018), which depicts the everyday challenges faced by Tunisian railway workers.
In 2022, she wrote, directed and produced her first feature film, Under the Fig Trees, an intimate portrait of youth, work and fleeting moments of connection, set in a rural fig orchard. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was selected to represent Tunisia at the 2023 Academy Awards.
The Promised Sky, her second feature film, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival as part of the official Un Certain Regard selection.
Schedule
August 2026
24
mon
21:00