Original Title: Promis Le Ciel Country: Tunisia, France, Qatar Year: 2025 Length: 95 min Language: French, Arabic

BIOGRAPHY

Érige Sehiri is a French-Tunisian director and producer. A former journalist, she began her film career making documentaries. Particularly sensitive to the world of work, she places workers with invisible destinies at the heart of her films. After her first short film, MY FATHER’S FACEBOOK, co-produced by the ARTE channel, she made an acclaimed feature-length documentary, RAILWAY MEN (2018), reflecting the daily struggle of railway workers.

In 2022, she wrote, directed and produced her first feature-length fiction film, UNDER THE FIG TREES, joining the selection of the 54th Directors' Fortnight at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, before being selected to represent Tunisia at the 2023 Oscars. The film was screened at festivals around the world and released in cinemas in some twenty countries. At the same time, Erige Sehiri is active in civil society, co-founding the NGO Al KHATT to promote freedom of expression and media education among young people. She is also co- founder of the Rawiyat-Sisters in Film collective.

Filmography

Promised Sky - 2025

Under the Fig Trees - 2022

Railway Men - 2018 - feature documentary

My Father’s Facebook - 2012 - short documentary

CREW

Director: Erige Sehiri Production: Maneki Films, Heina Production World Sales: Luxbox

CAST

Aïssa Maïga, Laetitia Ky, Deborat Christelle Naney

FESTIVALS & AWARDS

Cannes Film Festival - Un Certain Regard - 2025

Erige Sehiri

Director