{"id":198408,"date":"2025-05-19T17:57:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T15:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-postcard-from-cannes-2-a-tender-tale-of-women-surviving-migration-in-tunis\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T17:57:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T15:57:38","slug":"tunisia-postcard-from-cannes-2-a-tender-tale-of-women-surviving-migration-in-tunis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-postcard-from-cannes-2-a-tender-tale-of-women-surviving-migration-in-tunis\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Postcard From Cannes #2 &#8211; a Tender Tale of Women Surviving Migration in Tunis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\"><em> One of several films from the African continent shown at the Cannes Film Festival, Erige Sehiri&#8217;s <em>Promised Sky<\/em> (<em>Promis le ciel<\/em>) in the Un Certain Regard category, is a powerful and rare portrait of three migrant women struggling to make ends meet in Tunisia. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Franco-Tunisian director Sehiri, who worked previously as an investigative journalist, says it was important to bring women&#8217;s stories to the screen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">&#8220;We often hear stories of migration through men&#8217;s eyes, not women&#8217;s,&#8221; she told RFI&#8217;s Sophie&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505190023.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of several films from the African continent shown at the Cannes Film Festival, Erige Sehiri&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":198409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,20529,6486,257,51380,254,10629,14123,8121,643,4703,653,6524],"class_list":["post-198408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cannes","tag-migration","tag-news","tag-postcard","tag-south-africa-today","tag-surviving","tag-tale","tag-tender","tag-tunis","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-women"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}