2022 | France | Fiction

Saint Omer

  • French Portuguese, English 122 mins
  • Director | Alice Diop
  • Writer | Alice Diop, Amrita David, Marie Ndiaye
  • Producer | Toufik Ayadi, Christophe Barral

STATUS: Released

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COMPETITION Alice Diop enters the world of fiction telling the story of Rama, a professor of literature and novelist who travels to Saint-Omer to accompany a trial, being in the first months of pregnancy. In the defendant’s seat is Lawrence Coly, a Senegalese immigrant student accused of having left his daughter, just over a year old, abandoned on the beach. The kinship Rama feels with Lawrence’s life experience makes her apprehensive about her future.

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