Saint Omer
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Nominated at the 2023 César for Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best First Film.
Louis-Delluc Prize 2022 for the Best film
Grand Jury Prize and the First Film Award at the 2022 Venice Film Festival
Rama, a young novelist, attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint Omer court. She is accused of having killed her fifteen-month-old daughter by abandoning her on a beach in northern France during the rising tide. But during the trial, the word of the accused, listening to the testimonies, make Rama's certainties waver and question our judgment.
Alice Diop
Alice Diop is a French screenwriter and director. After studying history and visual sociology at the Panthéon Sorbonne University, she became a documentary director. Several of her short and medium films have been selected and awarded in festivals, such as LES SÉNÉGALAISES ET LA SÉNÉGAULOISE (2007), LA MORT DE DANTON (2011), but also LA PERMANENCE (2016) and VERS LA TENDRESSE (2016), César for Best Short Film in 2017. His feature documentary NOUS (2022) won the Berlinale Best Documentary Award as well as the Best Film Award in the Encounters Section of the festival in 2021. SAINT OMER is Alice Diop's first feature film.
