The Story of Souleymane

Name: The Story of Souleymane
Start: 2025-10-05T04:30:00+11:00
End: 2025-10-05T06:00:00+11:00
Location: Star Court Arcade, 126 Molesworth Street, Lismore, NSW, Australia, New South Wales 2480

Schedule

Sun Oct 05 2025 at 04:30 am to 06:00 am

UTC+11:00

Location

Star Court Arcade, 126 Molesworth Street, Lismore, NSW, Australia, New South Wales 2480 | Lismore, NS

M, 94 mins, France
One of the year’s finest and most vital French films, and the winner of three prestigious awards at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Boris Lojkine’s vivid and compassionate new drama follows a young courier as he races across Paris whilst preparing for a life-changing residency interview.
Food delivery workers have become an indispensable part of city life, especially since the pandemic. Among them is Souleymane (Abou Sangaré, in a commanding debut), who criss-crosses the frenetic Parisian streets morning to night, in a constant race against the clock. He, like many around him, is working without permission, ‘renting’ his identity from a friend with legal status. But in just two days, Souleymane will learn whether his own asylum application will be approved or not. So whilst striving to meet his delivery platform’s demands, he nervously practices for his interview, trying to keep his growing anxiety at bay…