SIRA: Freestyle Debuts Official Trailer For North African Feminist Survival Drama
The official trailer is out for writer/director Apolline Traoré’s new film, Sira. Starring Nafissatou Cisse, Mike Danon, and Lazare Minoungou, Freestyle Digital Media is heading up its U.S. release on VOD and DVD from May 7. Set in the Sahel region of North Africa, Sira stars Cisse in the title role of a young nomad, who, after a brutal attack, refuses to surrender to her fate without a fight and instead takes a stand against Islamist terror. Thw film is also produced by Traoré and by Denis Cougnaud. SIRA follows the journey of a beautiful young Peul girl, Sira, and her tribe cross Northern Africa’s Sahelian desert to take refuge in her fiancé’s village. In the middle of the journey, Sira sees her tribesmen violently massacred. After being humiliated by Sira, the chief, Yéré, decides to kidnap her and leaves her for dead in the middle of the desert. Sira […]