From Malian-French director Daouda Coulibaly comes Wùlu, a stunning crime film that owes as much to African director Souleymane Cissé as it does to De Palma and Scorsese.
Ladji is a young man barely eking out a living as a bus driver in Bamako. His dream is to one day earn enough to keep his younger sister from prostituting herself, but when he fails to get a promotion due to nepotism, he turns to a local drug dealer and is surprised at his own swift rise through the ranks—his life on the streets has made our hero especially adept at the drug trade. But when the drug trade slips into Al-Qaeda territory, life soon becomes more difficult and dangerous than he’s ever known before.
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"Daouda Coulibalys auspicious debut is structured like so many local-area tales, but delivered with a pulse-pounding thrust unique among African cinema." —Variety, Pamela Pianezza
Daouda Coulibaly: Daouda Coulibaly was born in 1977 in Marseilles to Malian and Guinian parents. A recipient of Focus Features’ Africa First program, he used the program to create his award-winning short “Tinye So,” which was inspired by filmmaker Ousmane Sembène. Wùlu is his first feature.
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