Whanganui Film Society's Monday night screening is Fatima - a 2016 film by French Canadian director Philippe Faucon.
"Philippe Faucon's Fatima, the richly deserving winner of this year's César (the French Oscar) for best film, is an acute and moving depiction of mother-daughter relationships," wrote reviewer Bill Gosden last year.
"The film is based on the poetry and short prose collections Prayer to the Moon and Finally, I can walk alone by Fatima Elayoubi, published in Arabic in France.
"Fatima (Soria Zeroual), the apparently unassuming author, is a divorced Algerian woman bringing up two teenage daughters in Lyon, working as a cleaner to pay for their education.
"The oldest, 18-year-old Nesrine (Zita Hanrot), is the embodiment of her mother's aspirations, determined to make it to medical school and batting off all potential distractions in the meantime.