Promised Sky

Promised Sky (2026)

Promis le ciel

Marie, Naney, and Jolie live together in Tunis, sheltering Kenza, a shipwreck survivor. As this unorthodox family forms, crises make each woman reconsider her place.

Date of release
2026-01-28
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (22)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Drama
Director
Erige Sehiri

Casting

Interesting facts

Promised Sky is a 2025 drama film directed by Erige Sehiri, from a screenplay she co-wrote with Anna Ciennik and Malika Cécile Louati. It is a French-Tunisian-Qatari international co-production. It stars Aïssa Maïga, Laetitia Ky and Debora Lobe Naney.

Production

In November 2023, Erige Sehiri announced the project under the working title Marie & Jolie and it participated at the Atlas Workshops, held during the Marrakech International Film Festival. In May 2024, it received a €40,000 production grant from the Francophonie Image Fund. It also received a €60,000 through the Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. In June 2024, it participated at the Venice Gap-Financing Market.

In 2026, it is selected at the San Diego French Film Festival.

In an interview with Cineuropa, Sehiri revealed that the idea of the film was conceived when she was working on a documentary film about sub-Saharan students in Tunisia.

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