Tunisia: Postcard From Cannes #2 – a Tender Tale of Women Surviving Migration in Tunis

One of several films from the African continent shown at the Cannes Film Festival, Erige Sehiri’s Promised Sky (Promis le ciel) in the Un Certain Regard category, is a powerful and rare portrait of three migrant women struggling to make ends meet in Tunisia.

Franco-Tunisian director Sehiri, who worked previously as an investigative journalist, says it was important to bring women’s stories to the screen.

“We often hear stories of migration through men’s eyes, not women’s,” she told RFI’s Sophie…