SAINT OMER

By Alice DIOP

NEW HORIZONS INT'L FILM FESTIVAL / NEW HORIZONS ASSOCIATION - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, POLAND / FEST / PROMO

Drama - Completed 2022

In this extraordinary narrative debut by acclaimed documentarian Alice Diop, a young novelist is forced to confront her personal traumas as she observes the trial of a woman accused of infanticide.

Festivals
& Awards

La Biennale di Venezia - Venice FF 2022
Competition Grand Prix ; Lion du futur Prix Luigi De Laurentiis du Meilleur premier film
Toronto - TIFF 2022
Special Presentations
New York FF 2022
Main slate
Busan IFF 2022
Flash Forward
Red Sea IFF 2022
Festival Favorites
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • FRANCE
    • Languages
    • FRENCH
    • Budget
    • 1 - 3 M$
    • Duration
    • 118 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Alice DIOP
    • Writer(s)
    • Alice DIOP, Amrita DAVID, Marie NDIAYE
    • Producer(s)
    • Toufik AYADI (SRAB FILMS), Christophe BARRAL (SRAB FILMS)
    • Synopsis
    • Successful journalist and author Rama (Kayije Kagame) attends the trial of a young Senegalese woman (Guslagie Malanda), who has allegedly murdered her own baby daughter. Rama’s plan to write about Laurence in a book inspired by the Medea myth increasingly unravels as she becomes overwhelmed by the case in Alice Diop’s arresting yet highly sensitive, superbly acted fiction feature debut.