OPENING IN US THEATERS ON AUGUST 1ST BEFORE A DIGITAL RELEASE.

SOULEYMANE’S STORY

| 2025 – 93′ – Drama.
Written by: Delphine Agut, Boris Lojkine.
Directed by: Boris Lojkine.
Starring: Abou Sangare, Nina Meurisse, Alpha Oumar Sow, Emmanuel Yovanie, Younoussa Dialo, Ghislain Mahan, Mamadou Barry, Yaya Dialo.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2024 (Un Certain Regard. Winner Best Actor and Jury’s Prize). Winner 4 César Awards 2025 including Best Promising Actor and Best Original Screenplay).
Official Competition TAFFF 2024 (US Premiere, Winner Critics Award).
In French with English subtitles.
A Kino Lorber Films release. |

Director Boris Lojkine takes us on a very visceral ride through the streets of Paris, depicting the harsh reality of a recent Guinean immigrant named Souleymane. The young man crisscrosses the metropolis at top speed on his bike, racing through traffic and racing against the clock, because every minute counts when you’re trying to make a buck by delivering restaurant meals, yet getting scammed left and right by the guys who are supposedly helping you. But what Souleymane is really fixated on is his political asylum application interview in two days, which will determine whether or not he will attain legal residency in France, and the “story” everyone insists he must memorize and recount by rote if he wants a positive verdict… even if it’s a story that totally baffles him and bears no resemblance whatsoever to the truth.