Bamako, Mali, 2007
Ladji, a 20 year old man, works hard as a prantiké (bus driver) to get out his older sister, Aminata, from prostitution.As he doesn’t get the promotion he was expecting, he decides to contact Driss, a drug dealer who owes him a favour.
Assisted by his two mischievous friends Houphouet and Zol, Ladji carries kilos of cocaine from Conakry to Bamako. His rapid rise to the top of the drug trafficking underworld, gives him easy access to money, women and a life that he had never dreamt of. But the price to pay is high.
DIRECTOR & SCREENWRITER
Daouda Coulibaly
CAST
Ibrahim Koma (The Crocodile Of Botswanga, Asphalt Playground)
Inna Modja
Habib Dembele (Bamako)
CINEMATOGRAPHER
Pierre Milon (Don’t Tell Me The Boy was Mad, The Snows Of Kilimandjaro, The Class, Heading South)
EDITOR
Julien Leloup (Standing Tall, On My Way)
PRODUCERS
Eric Névé for LA CHAUVE SOURIS (Female Agents, Dobermann)
ASTOU FILMS (The Pirogue)
36th Amiens International Film Festival - Audience Award
FESPACO – Best Actor Award
41th Toronto International Film Festival (Discovery - 2016)
60th BFI London Film Festival
AFI Fest
Reykjavik International Film Festival
CPH PIX
Namur International Film Festival
Hamburg International Film Festival
Philadelphia Film Festival
Cinémania Film Festival
Goa International Film Festival
Angoulême Film Festival
Festival International du Film Policier de Beaune
New Directors/New Films
New African Film Festival
Miami International Film Festival
Dublin International Film Festival
Portland IFF
Pan African Film Festival
Rotterdam IFF
Göteborg Film Festival
Palm Springs International Film Festival
Dubai IFF
Marrakech IFF
