Hawa 2022

Hawa is a French drama film, directed by Maïmouna Doucouré and released in 2022. The film centres on the coming-of-age of Hawa (Sania Halifa), a teenage girl in France who is living with her grandmother (Oumou Sangaré). Fearing that social services will take her away when her grandmother falls ill, sets out to get herself adopted by former US first lady Michelle Obama. Doucouré has described the film as being about the desire to transcend one's social class. Hawa features music from Malian Grammy-winning singer and songwriter Oumou Sangaré, as well as the French-Cameroonian singer Yseult. It premiered in the Platform Prize program at the Toronto International Film Festival on 13 September 2022, prior to its commercial distribution as an Amazon Prime Video original film. It was later announced that it would stream on Amazon Prime on 9 December 2022.