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Erige Sehiri’s “Promis le Ciel” Opens in France as Tunisian Media Praise Its Human Portrait of Migrant Women

Aïssa Maïga’s turn as a Tunis pastor helping refugees centers a story grounded in lived experience and quiet resilience.

Overview

  • The feature by Franco-Tunisian filmmaker Erige Sehiri reaches French theaters on January 28 after opening Un Certain Regard at Cannes.
  • The drama follows three women from sub‑Saharan Africa living together in Tunis, portrayed through intimate, everyday moments rather than headline events.
  • Tunisian outlets Mosaïque FM and La Presse commend the film’s focus on fears, hopes, and daily struggles, highlighting themes of uprooting, precarity, and uncertain futures.
  • Coverage situates the story against rising hostility toward migrants in Tunisia, with reporting citing xenophobic rhetoric attributed to President Kaïs Saïed.
  • Aïssa Maïga plays a pastor aiding sub‑Saharan refugees, with Laetitia Ky and Deborah Naney among the cast, and Maïga’s past advocacy on representation informing her role.