PROMISED SKY: Massachusetts premiere @ Belmont World Film's 24th International Film Series

When:
Monday, Jun 15, 2026 7:00p -
9:30p

Where:
West Newton Cinema
1296 Washington Street
West Newton, MA 02465

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Admission:
$14 in advance; $16 at the door; 8 films for $96. Memberships also available.

Hosted by:
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belmontworldfilm Belmont World Film

Categories:
Date Idea, Food, LGBTQ+, Movies

Event website:
https://belmontworldfilm2026.eventive.org/films/promised-sky-699cd3101af3540d4138a20d

Belmont World Film's 24th International Film Series, "Thicker than water," explores the ties that bind—and sometimes limit us— through an intimate and far-reaching collection of stories about families in all their complexity. Across cultures and continents, these films ask what we inherit, what we carry, and what we owe one another.


The series unfolds over eight consecutive Mondays at the West Newton Cinema, at 7:00 PM. After a two-week break, the series returns in June with three additional remarkable films in recognition of World Refugee Awareness Month and Pride Month.


All of the selections were official entries at the world’s major film festivals, with several receiving top honors. The films span four continents and feature ten different languages, including Arabic, Armenian, Greek, Darija, Dutch, French, Greek, Greenlandic, Quechua, Spanish, and Ukrainian—reflecting the many voices and vantage points that shape our shared human story.


In Promised Sky, three women from Côte d’Ivoire, living together in Tunisia without legal status, take in a young girl who washes ashore after a shipwreck. As this fragile, makeshift family begins to take shape, mounting pressures force each woman to confront where she belongs—and what she’s willing to risk. Premiered in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival.


Speaker: Haleigh Burgon, a PhD candidate in French and Francophone Studies at Boston University,at Boston University, who recently returned from a research trip to Tunisia, where she conducted oral history interviews with over a dozen women. Her dissertation investigates how French and Francophone women writers and creators use representations of motherhood and memory to exercise resilience and articulate creative agency. Her research focuses particularly on Francophone literature and film from North Africa and the Caribbean, with attention to gender, postcolonial identity, and narrative voice.


This Linda Plaut Festival of the Arts program is supported by Spark Newton in partnership with The City of Newton

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