One of several films from the African continent shown at the Cannes Film Festival, Erige Sehiri’s Promised Sky (Promis le ciel) in the Un Certain Regard category, is a powerful and rare portrait of three migrant women struggling to make ends meet in Tunisia.
Franco-Tunisian director Sehiri, who worked previously as an investigative journalist, says it was important to bring women’s stories to the screen.
