Apolline Traore's drama follows a young Fulani nomad crossing the Sahel who refuses to submit after a brutal jihadist attack on her caravan, and won the Panorama Audience Award at the 2023 Berlinale and the silver Etalon de Yennenga at FESPACO the same year.
Fun fact: Sira was Burkina Faso's Oscar submission for Best International Feature Film, reported as the country's first submission in that category since 1989.