Tunisian director Erige Sehiri scooped the Marrakech Film Festival’s top Etoile d’Or prize for her female-led feature Promised Sky over the weekend.

The drama about three Ivorian women living together in the Tunisian capital of Tunis, is Sehiri’s second fiction feature after 2022 Directors’ Fortnight selection Under the Fig Trees .

Promised Sky cast member Deborah Lobe Naney won Best Actress for her performance as a young mother living away from loved ones as she seeks to give them a better future.

The cast also featured Aïssa Maïga, who accompanied Sehiri to Marrakech, as well as Laetitia Ky and Estelle Dogbo.

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, whi

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