Marrakech, Dec. 7 -- Erige Sehiri's 'Promised Sky' was awarded the top prize at the Marrakech Film Festival, capping a dynamic year for the Moroccan festival, which saw record-breaking audiences and greater integration into the global awards circuit, according to Variety.

The film, described by New York-based film critic Tomris Laffly as "a unique drama about marginalised African immigrant women fighting for their dignity and place not in Europe... but on their own continent," follows four generations of Ivorian immigrant women navigating complex familial bonds amid entrenched social and economic divides.

Erige Sehiri, a Tunisian filmmaker, said, "As a Tunisian woman myself, I'm deeply frustrated to see that we can't welcome migrants wi...