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Souleymane is a Guinean immigrant in Paris whose every waking second is spent fighting against the clock, racing through the streets of Paris to make his quota for food deliveries on his bicycle in time to secure a bed at the shelter each night.  An asylum seeker, he has two days to prepare his story for a make-or-break interview to secure legal residency. First-time actor Abou Sangaré won the Un Certain Regard prize for Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival and the Best Male Revelation prize at the French César Awards.

“The best discovery of this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Souleymane’s Story delivers a political fable with all the grit and urgency of a thriller. ” – Rory O’Connor, The Film Stage

Brought together by the unexpected inheritance of an abandoned house in Normandy, four cousins, previously strangers, discover a mysterious shared past. Two centuries earlier, Adèle Munier, their ancestor and owner of the house, left her rural home for Paris in search of her mother’s identity, at the heart of the city’s modernization and the rise of Impressionism. As her descendants follow in her footsteps, they unravel Adèle’s past to forge their own future. Two intertwined periods collide, as the family members’ contemporary perspectives are pitted against the fascinating reality of 19th-century Paris.  

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