SAINT-OMER
ALICE DIOP
FICTION, DRAMA - Postproduction
FRENCH RELEASE - 2022
SYNOPSIS
Rama, a young novelist in her thirties, 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 the north of France during the rising tide.
Rama wanted to write a contemporary adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea about this infanticide story. But during the five days of the trial, nothing goes as planned.
In an unexpected way, it is finally her own relationship to motherhood that the closed-door trial will question.
COPRODUCTION
Srab Films
Arte France Cinéma
DISTRIBUTION
Diaphana
INTERNATIONAL SALES
Wild Bunch
BROADCASTERS
Canal+
Ciné+
Arte France
PARTNERS
Cofinova 18
Indéfilms 10
Région Ile-de-France
Région Pictanovo
CNC
DIRECTION
Alice Diop
SCRIPT
Alice Diop
Amrita David
Marie Ndiaye
CAST
Kayije Kagame