“Promised the sky” opens a certain look
It was by meeting migrants from sub -Saharan Africa who came to continue their studies in Tunisia that director Erige Sehiri had the idea of this fiction. Through the choral history of Mary, Ivorian pastor, Naney, mother of a child left in the country, pretty, student, and Kenza, a girl who is surviving a sinking, the filmmaker evokes the fate of characters in search of a better life.
Very touching, this fiction highlights a contemporary reality: the vast majority of African migrants (around 80 %) move within the continent and only 20 % of them migrate to Europe.
“As Tunisian, I am deeply disappointed that we are not able to treat migrants with dignity, we who are a country with so many emigrants abroad. And we comply as if we did not share the same continent, Africa… “said the filmmaker during the presentation of her film a few days before the start of the Cannes Film Festival.
Between pain and hope for these exiled women
In this feature film where every detail of everyday life makes sense on the screen, the director stages female characters for whom exile arouses as much pain as hope. The house in which Marie, Pasteur (Aïssa Maïga), cohabits with the other three women, also welcomes an evangelical church. A place in which the community finds refuge to pray, but also material and moral support. And so many obstacles stand on the brewed paths of these women, the promise of a better world carried by solidarity and human rights is never far away.
Our opinion: PP
