BFF: Promised Sky

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Showing: 08 November 2025

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Sat 8 Nov 2025

CertificateNot Rated
Year2025
GenreDrama
Director(s)Erige Sehiri
Writer(s)Anna Ciennik, Malika Cécile Louati, Erige Sehiri
LanguageArabic, French
CountryTunisia, France, Qatar
Running Time1HR 32MINS
Extra InfoEnglish Subtitles
Season Belfast Film Festival

The third feature from French Tunisian director Erige Sehiri is a colourful and neorealist exploration of the intersecting lives of three Black African women in Tunis as they shelter a lost child.

Each of them having migrated to Tunisia from the Ivory Coast, the film follows pastor Marie, young mother Naney, previously taken in by the church, and student Jolie, the only of the three living in Tunis with ‘papers’, as they create a found family and begin to build a home for Kenza.

A film that underscores the reality of anti-migrant sentiment around the world, plus the personal dangers faced by those en route, it also allows a window into the complex and precarious world of the undocumented in their new countries. As well as this, the film displays the depth of female relationships, support and collective caring, and shows that motherhood can take many forms.

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