Official Selection - Out of Competition · 44th Edition
Saint Omer
Director
Alice Diop
Country
France
Runtime
2 h 2 min
Language
French
Premiere
MENA premiere (Middle East and North Africa)
Synopsis
Saint-Omer court of law. Young novelist Rama attends the trial of a young woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter. The words of the accused and witness testimonies will question our own judgment.
Cast
Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valérie Dréville, Aurélia Petit
Screenplay
Alice Diop, Amrita David, Marie NDiaye
Producers
Toufik Ayadi, Christophe Barral
About the Director
French screenwriter and director. After studying history and visual sociology at the Sorbonne, she began her career as a documentary filmmaker. Her short and medium length films were selected and awarded prizes in several festivals, including LA PERMANENCE and TOWARDS TENDERNESS (2016), which won the César for Best Short Film in 2017. Her feature length documentary WE won the Best Documentary Award as well as Best Film in the Encounters section at the Berlin Film Festival in 2021. Also, it was screened in CIFF. SAINT OMER is her fiction feature film debut and it won the Grand Jury prize in Venice Film Festival.
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