Saint Omer – Global Roots Film Festival

$6

February 19

A poster of two women with the title "saint omer"

Shortlisted for the Academy Awards.
Winner of the Silver Lion and the Lion of the Future at the Venice Film Festival.
New York Times Critics Pick

Documentarian Alice Diop’s extraordinary debut fiction feature follows the experiences of a young novelist attempting to write a new version of the Medea myth.  It retells a 2016 infanticide case while casually inventing a wrenching new grammar for the true-life tragedy genre. Saint Omer is both a courtroom drama and also an unusual kind of true-crime chronicle.Challenging accepted ideas of perspective, subjectivity and objectivity, it is a complex meditation on Black women in modern-day France.

This film is part of the Global Roots Film Festival, visit the VTIFF website for full schedule and tickets