Alice Diop’s Venice Winner ‘Saint Omer’
Neon’s label acquired the Silver Lion and Jury Prize winner ahead of a U.S. premiere at the New York Film Festival.

Neon’s boutique label Super has acquired the U.S. rights to Alice Diop’s Saint Omer after a bow at Venice, which it plans to release theatrically.
The film picked up the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize, played in Toronto and is headed to a U.S. premiere at the New York Film Festival.
Diop co-wrote her debut fiction feature alongside Amrita David and Marie Ndiaye.
Saint Omer stars Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valérie Dréville and Aurélia Petit.
The courtroom drama follows Rama (Kagame), a pregnant young novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly (Malanda), a Senegalese woman accused of murdering her baby by leaving her on a beach to be swept away by the tide.
Diop had already won several honors, including the Berlin Film Festival’s best documentary award for Nous.