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  1. Jan 13, 2023 · 6 min read. In 2016, the accomplished documentary filmmaker Alice Diop, sat in the courtroom in the town of Saint-Omer, listening to the chilling testimony of Fabienne Kabou, a French-Senegalese woman accused of killing her infant daughter.

  2. Sep 16, 2022 · The story's based on the real-life trial of Fabienne Kabou in 2015, a Senegalese immigrant accused of murdering her 15-month-old baby. Diop attended the trial and took copious notes, with dialogue...

    • Alice Diop
  3. Sep 7, 2022 · French filmmaker Alice Diop's extraordinary fiction debut 'Saint Omer' invents a radically and wrenchingly personal new grammar for the true-life courtroom drama.

  4. Young novelist Rama attends the trial of Laurence Coly, a young woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France.

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    • Alice Diop
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    • Kayije Kagame
  5. Feb 2, 2023 · A novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court tries to use her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea, but things don't go as expected.

  6. Sep 13, 2022 · Saint Omer: a chilling courtroom drama that plays on deep maternal fears. Alice Diop’s fiction feature debut, based loosely on a real-life infanticide court case, examines the monstrous potential within all mothers with startling insight and empathy.

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  8. Sep 7, 2022 · Saint Omer, which premieres at Venice in competition, is a spellbinding chamber drama about the isolation of motherhood, the grief of parenting and racial interpellation.

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