It won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival as well as the Luigi De Laurentiis Award for Best Debut Film.
“Saint Omer” follows Rama ( Kayije Kagame), a novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly ( Guslagie Malanda) at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court to use her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea, but things don’t go as expected. I’m very happy that I was chosen to represent French cinema.” Watch our exclusive interview above. I’m particularly happy to be chosen with ‘Saint Omer,’ which is a film that, like the kinds of cinema that I defend, places the formal concern at the center of the making process, and that is carried by two fantastic Black actresses that, in their characters and in themselves, carry absolutely universal concerns.
“It says something about the tradition of cinema that made me want to make films in the first place. “It’s an absolute honor and a source of pride for me,” says Alice Diop, the director and co-writer of “ Saint Omer,” France’s entry for Best International Feature at the 95th Academy Awards.
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