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- Related Stories Festivals How Tunisian ‘Promised Sky’ Writer-Director Erige Sehiri Is Combating The Media’s “Reverse Narration” Of African Migrant Stories – Cannes Studio Festivals Cannes One To Watch: Ivorian Artist Laetitia Ky Sets Her Sights On Superheroes With ‘Promised Sky’ The cast also featured Aïssa Maïga, who accompanied Sehiri to Marrakech, as well as Laetitia Ky and Estelle Dogbo.
- Watch on Deadline Erige Sehiri, director of Marrakech Film Festival’s Best Film winner Etoile d’Or for ‘Promised Sky,’ talks next film set in a luxury hotel in Hammamet: “I did two films about women in Tunisia… I will finish this trilogy with a third film about women at work in Tunisia” Deadline (@DEADLINE) December 7, 2025 Talking to Deadline on the red carpet earlier in the festival prior to her win, Sehiri revealed the films were part of a trilogy about women at work in Tunisia, which she plans to complete with a drama set in a luxury hotel in Hammamet.
- Promised Sky was among 13 first and second features in the Marrakech’s 2025 competition, with a jury led by Bong Joon Ho and also featuring Anya Taylor-Joy, Jenna Ortega, Celine Song, Karim Aïnouz, Hakim Belabbes, Julia Ducournau, and Payman Maadi.
- In other prizes, the Jury Prize went ex æquo to Jihan K’s documentary My Father And Qaddafi and Vladlena Sandu’s Memory.
- Oscar Hudson won the Best Directing Prize for Straight Circle, while the Best Actor award went to Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù for his performance in Akinola Davies Jr.’s My Father’s Shadow.
