Lingui – Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

Lingui is one of the few African films to make it to the Cannes festival competition, and another magnificent work by the extraordinary director from Chad, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, which has enraptured the critics.

• Amina lives in the sun-baked outskirts of the capital of Chad, N'Djamena, where she raises 15-year-old Maria alone. Every day is a struggle to give the daughter a better life than that of the mother, who works hard for a fragile stability. But one day and one message are enough for their world to collapse like a house of cards. Maria is pregnant and she wants an abortion. In a country where terminating a pregnancy is both a sin and a crime, helping the desperate daughter is extremely risky. Will Amina pick up a fight that seems outright lost?