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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like Lingui, it follows a woman moving through hostile institutions with calm, unadorned urgency, using an intimate family ordeal to reveal the weight of a society’s political and patriarchal pressures.
02
Why this pick
This spare Chadian drama shares Lingui’s moral seriousness and unhurried visual language, finding emotional force in restrained encounters rather than overt plotting.
03
Why this pick
A young girl’s fate exposes entrenched social cruelty in this visually composed, darkly absurd African drama. It matches Lingui’s focus on female vulnerability and institutional indifference, though with sharper satire.
04
Why this pick
A quiet, tactile portrait of inherited trauma and female resilience, told with the same respect for interiority and social context that gives Lingui its devastating emotional weight.
05
Why this pick
Blending documentary and reenactment, it examines a mother–daughter bond under intense social pressure. Its form differs from Lingui, but its empathy and refusal to simplify painful choices strongly align.
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01 / THE STORY
In the suburbs of N’djaména in Chad, Amina lives alone with Maria, her only fifteen-year-old daughter. Her already fragile world falls apart the day she finds out her daughter is pregnant. This pregnancy, the teenager does not want. In a country where abortion is not only condemned by religion, but also by law, Amina finds herself facing a fight that seems lost in advance ...
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Amina
Maria
Brahim
Fanta
