My review of Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s *Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars*, a remarkably beautiful and fluid Chadian film that transforms African oral traditions, ancestral knowledge, and spirituality into an extraordinary cinematic experience. Through Kellou, a young woman confronting prejudice and patriarchal authority, the film explores the intimate connections between nature, the living, the dead, and the invisible world. Rich in cultural memory and poetic imagery, *Soumsoum* masterfully brings together mythology, contemporary social concerns, and inherited wisdom without ever becoming didactic, revealing the extraordinary expressive possibilities of cinema.