Title from sell sheet. Originally released as a motion picture in 2022. Wide screen. Special features: new interview with Diop; conversations featuring Diop, filmmaker Dee Rees, and author H�el�ene Frappat; and more! Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valerie Dreville, Aur�elia Petit.
Summary:
Bringing a documentarian's sense of open-ended inquiry to her first narrative feature, writer-director Alice Diop constructs a morally and emotionally layered courtroom drama unlike any other. When she travels to Saint-Omer, France, to attend the trial of a young Senegalese woman accused of murdering her infant daughter, novelist Rama finds herself shaken to the core by a case that proves to have profound resonances with her own life. Interweaving complex themes of mother-daughter bonds, immigrant alienation, and postcolonial trauma into a piercing portrait of two mysteriously connected women, Diop forgoes mere questions of guilt and innocence to plumb the unsettling unknowability of the human soul.
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