Félicité (2017)

Félicité is a 2017 Senegalese  drama film directed by  Alain Gomis. [3]  It was selected to compete for the  Golden Bear in the main competition section of the  67th Berlin International Film Festival. [4]  At Berlin, the film won the  Jury Grand Prix award. [5]  At the 2017  Africa Movie Academy Awards, it won six awards which is the highest for a film in the history of the award ceremony, including categories for best film, best actress, best supporting actor, best editing, best soundtrack and best film in an African language. [6] [7] [8] <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"HelveticaNeue",Helvetica,"NimbusSansL",Arial,"LiberationSans",sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> It was selected as the Senegalese entry for the  Best Foreign Language Film<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"HelveticaNeue",Helvetica,"NimbusSansL",Arial,"LiberationSans",sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> at the  90th Academy Awards<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"HelveticaNeue",Helvetica,"NimbusSansL",Arial,"LiberationSans",sans-serif;font-size:16px;">. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-THR_9-0" style="font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1;font-family:"HelveticaNeue",Helvetica,"NimbusSansL",Arial,"LiberationSans",sans-serif;font-size:0.75em;background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;color:rgb(34,34,34);">[9] <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"HelveticaNeue",Helvetica,"NimbusSansL",Arial,"LiberationSans",sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> It was the first time Senegal had sent a film for consideration for the Best Foreign Language film