France, May 16 -- Six African films are screening at this year's Cannes Film Festival, which opened this week and runs until 24 May. The selection spans historical fiction, social drama and crime thrillers - with stories set in Tunis, Cairo, Yaounde, Lagos and Jerada. The works explore migration, memory, justice and belonging, giving voice to communities often left out of the spotlight.

Promised the Sky opens Un Certain Regard

Franco-Tunisian director Erige Sehiri returns to Cannes with Promised the Sky, which opens the Un Certain Regard section. Her previous film, Under the Fig Trees, drew wide acclaim for its focus on women's lives and quiet resilience.

Sehiri'snew story centres on Marie, an Ivorian pastor living in Tunis, who opens ...