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Saint Omer(Movie, 2022)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 2min | Genres: Drama, Crime
Saint OmerRating: 3.2/5 (with 5959 votes)
Saint Omer is a 2022 French legal drama film directed by Alice Diop and starring Kayije Kagame and Guslagie Malanda. It is Diop's first narrative feature after working as a documentary filmmaker. In the film, Rama (Kagame) is a pregnant young novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly (Malanda), a Senegalese woman accused of murdering her 15-month-old child by leaving her on a beach to be swept away by the tide, in order to turn the tragic event into a literary retelling of Medea. It is based on the French court case of Fabienne Kabou, who was convicted of the same crime. Diop attended Kabou's trial in 2016. The film premiered in-competition at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on 7 September 2022, where it won the Silver Lion Grand Jury prize along with the Luigi De Laurentiis Lion of the Future award. Additional screenings were held at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival and the 2022 New York Film Festival before the theatrical release in France on 23 November 2022. The film was selected as the French entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards, and made the December shortlist. The film received the Grand Prix for Best Film at Film Fest Gent in 2022. ()
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Awards & Nominations for Saint Omer

César Award for Best First Feature Film European Film Award for Best Director

About Saint Omer

A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, her own family history, doubts, and fears about motherhood are steadily dislodged as the life story of the accused is gradually revealed.

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Official UK Trailer #2(Teaser, 0:30)

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Additional Information

Production country: France
Original language: French (FR)
Spoken languages: French (FR)
Translated into 19 languages: Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Burmese (MY), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 03/09/2023 (World premiere: 11/23/2022)
Cast: Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valérie Dréville, Aurélia Petit, Xavier Maly, Robert Cantarella, Salimata Kamate, Thomas de Pourquery
Director: Alice Diop
Producer: Christophe Barral, Toufik Ayadi
Screenwriter: Alice Diop, Marie NDiaye
Director of Photography: Claire Mathon
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Saint-Omer"
"เธอนั้นหรือคือหญิงบาป"
"聖奧梅爾殺嬰案"
Revenue: 823,074 USD

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:491365, Added: 04/07/2022, Last updated: 03/07/2024