Winner of Silver Lion for BEST FILM
Lion of the Future for BEST DEBUT FILM
79th VENICE FILM FESTIVAL
and
France’s entry for Best International Film ACADEMY AWARDS 2023
Films We Like has acquired the Canadian rights to Alice Diop’s debut narrative feature Saint Omer, winner of the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the 79th Venice Film Festival, official selection at Toronto and New York Film Festivals and France’s entry for Best International Feature Film, Academy Awards 2023.
For the past decade award-winning documentarian Alice Diop has turned her camera on injustices and intimate stories of immigrant communities on the peripheries of Paris. In her astonishing narrative feature debut, she brings her typical sensitivity and rigor to a story inspired by a real-life trial of a woman who allegedly abandoned her 15-month-old daughter on a beach in northern France.
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ABOUT FILMS WE LIKE
Founded by award-winning documentary filmmaker Ron Mann (Grass, Comic Book Confidential, Carmine Street Guitars) Films We Like is a boutique distributor of documentary, independent, and international films in Canada. Recent releases include Anonymous Club, Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux, and Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Academy Award-winning feature, Drive My Car.