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No More Flowers

NENEH SUPERSTAR

• Director: Ramzi Ben Sliman
• FRANCE / 2022 / DCP / Colour / 95’ / French; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Ramzi Ben Sliman
• Director of Photography: Antony Diaz
• Editing: Basile Belkhiri
• Music: Jean-Bohémond Leguay
• Cast: Oumy Bruni Garrel, Maïwenn, Aïssa Maïga, Steve Tientcheu, Cédric Kahn, Alexandre Steiger
• Producer: Rémi Cervoni, Sidonie Dumas, Marc Vadé
• Production Co.: Gaumont, France 2 Cinéma
• World Sales: Gaumont

Neneh is a 12-year-old black girl, who dreams of becoming a ballerina at the famed Paris Opera Ballet School. Despite her enthusiasm, Neneh will have to redouble her efforts to be accepted by the inflexible director of the school, Marianne Belage, who is the guarantor of traditions and the bearer of a secret. Struggling to break a glass ceiling, Neneh will never give up on her dream while the instructors and administrators persist in believing that black women have no place onstage as part of the classical repertoire. Director Ramzi Ben Sliman, who wrote the role of Marianne Belage especially for Maïwenn, selected dancer Oumy Bruni Garrel to play Neneh, who also said that being black she suffered similar setbacks in the world of classical dance.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.