‘Promised Sky’ Review: Erige Sehiri Delivers a Keenly Observed Migrant Drama With a Documentarian’s Aesthetic 

Selected to open the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, French Tunisian director Erige Sehiri’s intimately conceived drama “Promised Sky” follows four generations of Ivorian immigrant women as they find solidarity, conflict and sometimes a sense of displacement in one another’s company. Female relationships are complicated enough as is, even between those […]

May 15, 2025 - 13:08
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‘Promised Sky’ Review: Erige Sehiri Delivers a Keenly Observed Migrant Drama With a Documentarian’s Aesthetic 
Selected to open the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, French Tunisian director Erige Sehiri’s intimately conceived drama “Promised Sky” follows four generations of Ivorian immigrant women as they find solidarity, conflict and sometimes a sense of displacement in one another’s company. Female relationships are complicated enough as is, even between those […]