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One day, Soumaya - a woman of color, a practicing Muslim, a mother, and an executive at an airport transportation company in Paris - is fired from her job of fourteen years without explanation or warning. Later that night, while watching TV, she learns that certain media outlets are linking her, through speculation, to jihadist circles. This all occurs only days after Soumaya's apartment, where she lives with her young daughter, is raided by police. Shaken but not about to sit by in silence, Soumaya decides to exercise her right of reply in court - where her legal team demonstrates that she was fired only as a result of discrimination. Based on real events, SOUMAYA shines a light on the devastating repercussions of anti-terrorist policing and Islamophobia in the wake of the November 2015 Paris attacks.

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• Official Selection: Festival Régional et International du Cinéma de Guadeloupe
• Official Selection: Festival International du Film Panafricain de Cannes
• Official Selection: Cinemigrante (Argentina)
• Official Selection: Lebanese Independent Film Festival
• Official Selection: San Diego Arab Film Festival
• WINNER, Best Lead Actress, Anatolia International Film Festival (Istanbul)
• Official Selection: DC Independent Film Festival
• Official Selection: Rated SR Socially Relevant Film Festival
• WINNER, Best Actress, Festival International Cinéma et Migrations d’Agadir (Morocco)
• WINNER, Best Actress, Hollywood International Diversity Film Festival
• WINNER, Grand Jury Prize, Best Feature, Universe Multicultural Film Festival

Press Quotes

An unprecedented look at the state of emergency in France from the viewpoint of the victims, whose experience often goes unacknowledged.

     —Hassina Mechaï, Middle East Eye

An uncompromising film, courageous, honest and committed...

     —AVoir-ALire