SOUMSOUM, THE NIGHT OF THE STARS wins FIPRESCI Prize at Berlinale

Congratulations to the director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, and the whole team of SOUMSOUM, THE NIGHT OF THE STARS, for winning FIPRESCI award as the best film in Berlinale Competition.

Jury's motivation:
“We have the honour to dedicate our prize to a film of quiet yet profound poetic and political power. Set in a desert village suspended between reality and dream, the film follows a young woman marked as different and treated as an outsider. Through restrained dialogue and a masterful interplay of image, rhythm, and sound, it is a work of luminous magical realism in which landscape becomes both aesthetic and emotional terrain. With its contemplative pacing, striking cinematography, feminist force and critique of authoritarianism, the film affirms the autonomy of its heroine, in its delicate balance between beauty and resistance. The FIPRESCI prize goes to Soumsoum, la nuit des astres directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun.”