Set on the outskirts of N'Djamena, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's drama follows a mother confronting her fifteen year old daughter's unwanted pregnancy in a country where abortion is condemned by both religion and law, and competed in the main competition at Cannes 2021.
Fun fact: It was Haroun's first film centered on female leads in a career spanning almost thirty years, and Lingui is the Chadian word the title translates as sacred bonds.