Black Life is thrilled to present Saint Omer, Alice Diop’s 2022 film starring Kayije Kagame and Guslagie Malanda. Diop’s first venture into narrative after more than a decade of documentary filmmaking, Saint Omer follows a young novelist, Rama (Kagame), who is observing the trial of Laurence Coly (Malanda), a woman accused of murdering her fifteen-month-old child in northern France. Based on a real-life 2016 trial in the French town the film borrows its title from, Diop’s haunting retelling is nuanced and charged with provocations about motherhood, immigration, and abandonment. 

—ruth gebreyesus

Black Life Film Program Sponsor: Julie Simpson

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