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Erige Sehiri’s ‘Promised Sky’ Debuts Trailer Ahead of Premiere in Cannes as Luxbox Launches Sales (EXCLUSIVE)
Erige Sehiri's "Promised Sky," which has its world premiere in Cannes' Un Certain Regard, has debuted its trailer.
Sehiri’s last film, “Under the Fig Trees,” played in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight in 2022, and was selected to represent Tunisia at the 2023 Academy Awards. “With mass arrests and raids taking place all around Tunisia, we began to ask ourselves: how can we breathe these tensions into our story without turning our characters into outdated, reductive stereotypes? The cast includes Aïssa Maiga, Debora Lobe Naney, Laetitia Ky, Estelle Kenza Dogbo, Foued Zaazaa, Mohamed Grayaa and Touré Blamassi.
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