After LINGUI, THE SACRÉ LINKS; GRIGRIS (both selected in competition at the Cannes Film Festival 2021 and 2013), and UN MAN WHO CRY (Joury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival 2010), the Franco-Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun comes back to the cinema with SOUMSOUM, THE NIGHT OF ASTRES.
The film will be presented this year at the Berlinale in competition and will be released on our cinema screens on April 22.
Synopsis: In an isolated village in Chad, Kellou is crossed by visions that she does not understand. Thanks to her encounter with Aya, an exile with painful secrets, she will discover another way to look at her past, her dreams and her village. But in defending Aya, whom the chief of the village tries to hunt, she encounters the fear and anger of the inhabitants, and will have to fight to keep her freedom.
With Maimouna Miawama, Eriq Ebouaney, Ashuackh Abakar Souleymane
Producers : Pili Films
