France, May 17 -- One of several films from the African continent shown at the Cannes Film Festival, Erige Sehiri's Promised Sky (Promis le ciel) in the Un Certain Regard category, is a powerful and rare portrait of three migrant women struggling to make ends meet in Tunisia.

Franco-Tunisian director Sehiri, whoworked previously as an investigative journalist, says it was important to bring women's stories to the screen.

"We often hear stories of migration through men's eyes, not women's," she told RFI's Sophie Torlotin after the premiere screening in Cannes.

"We also talk a lot about migration from Africa to Europe. But (...) 80 percent of this migration remains within Africa. I found that it provided a very powerful context for rever...