EXCLUSIVE: French director Alice Diop’s breakout feature Saint Omer has secured distribution in a raft of territories for Paris-based Wild Bunch International (WBI) following its Venice Silver Lion…
announcement follows hot on the heels of news last week thatfor the U.S. by Neon’s boutique label Super, in a deal brokered by CAA Media Finance and WBI.titles in the running to be France’s Oscar submission this year. A decision is due on the choice on Friday .follows successful pregnant novelist and lecturer Rama as she attends the trial of Laurence Coly , a young Senegalese woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France.
Although Laurence admits to killing the child, she cannot or will not provide motivation, claiming it was a kind of sorcery out of her control. Rama’s plan to write about Laurence in a book inspired by the Medea myth increasingly unravels as she becomes overwhelmed by the case, and reckons with memories of her immigrant mother as well as her own impending motherhood.
The drama is Diop’s first fiction film but the filmmaker has already achieved success on the festival circuit with the documentary
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