Horizons / Promis le ciel / France, Tunisia, Qatar 2025
Three women, three stories of flight from various corners of Africa. They find refuge in one building on the outskirts of Tunis, where they form a fragile alliance and a silent bond of solidarity. But when an abandoned child that has survived a shipwreck appears in their lives, it changes not only the atmosphere in their home but also the inner balance of each of them… Shown in official selection at Un Certain Regard in Cannes, director Erige Sehiri’s film takes a sensitive look at the everyday lives of people united by loss, uprootedness, and the need to find their place and their purpose in a new reality. Highly empathetic yet with a good dose of realism, it forces us to consider questions of community and personal responsibility and to ask ourselves when it is time to take one’s future into one’s own hands.
Petra Vočadlová
95 min / Color, DCP
Director Erige Sehiri
/ Screenplay Erige Sehiri, Anna Ciennik, Malika Cécile Louati
/ Dir. of Photography Frida Marzouk
/ Music Valentin Hadjadj
/ Sound Aymen Laabidi, Alexis Jung, Simon Apostolou
/ Editor Nadia Ben Rachid
/ Producer Didar Domehri, Erige Sehiri
/ Production Maneki Films, Henia Production
/ Coproduction Canal+
/ Cast Aïssa Maiga, Debora Lobe Naney, Laetita Ky
/ Sales LUXBOX
Erige Sehiri. Selected filmography: Family Albums (Mawsem hisad, 2012, doc., co-dir.), Le Facebook de mon père (2013, short doc.), Railway Men (As-Sekka, 2018, doc.), Under the Fig Trees (Taht alshajra, 2021), Promised Sky (Promis le ciel, 2025).
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