Saloum

Bangui’s Hyenas are a fabled trio of mercenaries from Guinea-Bissau, who strip a drug dealer of his enormous wealth and make a beeline for Dakar. There they get trapped in a near-mythical resort… and the blood is just beginning to flow in Jean Luc Herbulot’s kinetic thriller-horror hybrid.

Amidst the chaos of a coup d’état, Bangui’s Hyenas perform an almost perfect siege of a Mexican drug lord, and flee with millions in drugs and gold. But when they find themselves stranded in the Sine-Saloum Delta, a coastal river whose archipelago is seemingly filled with unearthly creatures, the Hyenas find themselves, and their weaponry, at a distinct disadvantage. “Freely mixes and marries the cinematic languages of spaghetti Westerns, samurai dramas and classic monster movies to tell an exciting and distinctly African story.” –Richard Kuipers, Variety

Director Biography

Jean Luc Herbulot was born in Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo and studied multimedia and film editing in Paris. He is the director of the short films “Concurrence loyale” (2009), “Stabat Mater” (2011), “Sick” (2012), “Munster Cake” (2013) and the features Dealer (2014) and Saloum (2021).

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