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.