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"Promise the Sky", a Film to "Crack the Clichés" on Intra-African Migration

Film about the situation of sub-Saharan migrants, the film Promis le ciel was released on Wednesday 28 January in the theatre. Directed by Franco-Tunisian filmmaker Erige Sehiri, the feature film is interested in the situation of women who have placed their suitcases in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, thus drawing their portraits back from statistics and clichés on migration.

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Film about the situation of sub-Saharan migrants, the film Promis le ciel was released on Wednesday 28 January in the theatre. Directed by Franco-Tunisian filmmaker Erige Sehiri, the feature film is interested in the situation of women who have placed their suitcases in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, thus drawing their portraits back from statistics and clichés on migration.

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After Under the figs, Erige Sehiri confirms, with Promise the sky, the breadth of a filmmaker attentive to the margins, silences and faces that cinema shows too rarely.

The director and principal actress of Promis le ciel, who staged the exile journey of three Ivorian women in Tunis in an evangelical church led by one of them, returned for La Croix on the genesis of the film and the figure of woman pastor who was at the centre of the story.

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La Croix broke the news in on Wednesday, January 28, 2026.
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