Promis le Ciel | Promised Sky: dir Erige Sehiri (2025)

Sehiri’s intimate drama follows four generations of Ivorian immigrant women as they find solidarity, conflict and sometimes a sense of displacement in one another’s company. We’re dropped into the lives of Marie (Aïssa Maïga), Naney (Debora Lobe Naney) and Jolie (Laetitia Ky), as the three roommates care for a little girl, Kenza (Estelle Kenza Dogbo), a displaced child who appears to have miraculously survived a migrant shipwreck before the three women found her. Female relationships are complicated enough as is, even between those on a level playing field; but in their adopted home in Tunisia none of the women are equals from a socio-economic standpoint …

Screens in the CinemaNA series of contemporary Arab cinema. Curated by NYUAD Arts Professor of Film and New Media Scandar Copti, CinemaNA – which is celebrated 10 years of programming – is presented by the NYUAD Film and New Media Program in partnership with The Arts Center.