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Sira

Sira

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  • Burkina Faso,
  • France,
  • Germany
  • 2023
  • · 122m

Director Apolline Traoré
Cast Nafissatou Cissé, Mike Danon, Lazare Minoungou, Nathalie Vairac, Ruth Werner, Abdramane Barry
Genre Drama

After a horrible terrorist attack, a young migrant woman named Sira refuses to surrender to her fate without a fight, choosing instead to take a brave stand against Islamist terror. Sira and her fight stand as a feminist counterpoint to the current events reporting out of the Sahel region.

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Screen Daily by Jonathan Romney

A punchy, visually potent story of survival and revenge, Apolline Traoré’s Sira offers a female-centred take on current tensions in northern Africa, and shows the Burkinabe writer/director on confident form with her fifth narrative feature.

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Cineuropa by Vladan Petkovic

Traoré has devised the story in a way that is both clever and honest. The audience doesn't need to know details about this complicated region, or its tribal and religious allegiances: it is a straight-forward narrative with easily recognisable themes and clear interpersonal dynamics.