Afrikamera 2026 – Soumsoum, la nuit des astres

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
France / Chad 2026, Original with English subtitles, 99 min

[Tickets]

THU 12 NOV
6 PM FSK KINO

In Chad’s Ennedi Desert, anci­ent moun­ta­ins rise from the sand. They pre­ser­ve the memo­ry of a for­got­ten past and tell age-old legends.

Kellou, a young woman from a near­by vil­la­ge, is haun­ted by mys­te­rious visi­ons that set her apart from tho­se around her and that she hers­elf does not under­stand. Her world chan­ges the day she meets Aya, an out­cast in her for­ties who lives on the edge of the vil­la­ge. Aya knows that Kellou pos­s­es­ses a spe­cial gift: she was the mid­wi­fe pre­sent at Kellou’s birth, when her mother died after spea­king her final words. As the vil­la­ge com­mu­ni­ty turns against the gro­wing bond bet­ween the two women, Kellou must car­ry out one final task for Aya: to pre­ser­ve the mys­ti­cal, pan­the­i­stic world they share, whe­re the visi­ble and invi­si­ble mer­ge into one ano­ther, a world who­se dis­ap­pearance Aya fears.

SOUMSOUM, LA NUIT DES ASTRES cele­bra­ted its inter­na­tio­nal pre­mie­re in the com­pe­ti­ti­on sec­tion at the 2026 Berlinale.