Cannes Prize Winner SOULEYMANE’S STORY Gets Digital Streaming Release Date

Kino Lorber is set to release the French drama SOULEYMANE’S STORY on VOD and digital platforms next month, arriving on September 16th, 2025. The film had its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize and the Performance Prize. It launched in US theaters on August 1st, 2025.

Souleymane's Story is directed by Boris Lojkine from a script he wrote with Delphine Agut. The film stars Abou Sangaré, Nina Meurisse, Alpha Oumar Sow, Emmanuel Yovanie, Younoussa Diallo, Ghislain Mahan, Mamadou Barry, Yaya Diallo, and Dalo Keita.

In the opening scenes of Boris Lojkine’s urgent third feature, a Guinean immigrant bicycles frantically from one food delivery pickup to another, the camera racing along just behind him, revealing a singular new view of Paris from the perspective of some of its most underappreciated workers. Over the two days that follow, Souleymane (played by non-professional actor Abou Sangaré in a riveting first performance) struggles to stay afloat while preparing for a crucial immigration asylum interview.

Stylistically inspired in part by Cristian Mungiu’s 2007 Cannes winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Lojkine’s bracing, artful realism offers an equally affecting account of a migrant laborer’s experience finding himself caught up in the mechanisms of an uncaring and unforgiving society. Shooting on city streets with concealed cameras, Lojkine creates a simultaneously pulse-pounding and heartrending view of contemporary Parisian life.

We’ve added the release date to our Streaming Calendar. Check out the film’s official US trailer below.

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