French
France
The life of Souleymane, a young Guinean who juggles precarious gig jobs before finally achieving his Holy Grail: refugee status, after an oral exam that he anticipates and practices for. Fiction blends with reality for Abou Sangare, the remarkable actor in the film, who was denied his regularization request just before receiving his award at Cannes. Boris Lojkine captures, far from clichés and continuous news cycles, the daily life of an undocumented immigrant and, through his lens, an entire segment of society eager to escape but constrained by life to poverty and social downgrading. A work about him, but also about them. A philosophical essay on resilience.