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Super Takes U.S. Rights To Alice Diop’s Venice Prize Winner ‘Saint Omer’

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Neon’s boutique label Super has secured U.S. rights to Alice Diop’s acclaimed drama Saint Omer, following its world premiere earlier this month at the Venice Film Festival, where the film won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize, as well as the Luigi De Laurentiis Lion of the Future Award for Best Debut Feature.Inspired by a true story, Saint Omer is billed as a contemporary version of the Medea myth.

The film follows the novelist Rama (Kayije Kagame) as she attends the trial of Laurence Coly (Guslagie Malanga), a young woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France.

As the trial continues, the words of the accused and witness testimonies will shake Rama’s convictions and call into question our own judgment.One of just four films selected to competition this year at the Venice, Toronto and New York Film Festivals, Saint Omer has also been named as one of five films shortlisted by the French Academy Awards commission for the 2023 Best International Feature race.

The film will next have its U.S. premiere as part of NYFF’s Main Slate before going on to the BFI London Film Festival and a theatrical release via Super, at a date that has not yet been announced.Saint Omer is Diop’s second film on the heels of the documentary Nous (We), which won the Berlin Film Festival’s Encounters Award in 2021.

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