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CINEMA – After the Cannes consecration, the administrative consecration. Presented during the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival last May, The Story of Souleymane received the jury prize and Abou Sangaré the prize for male interpretation in the Un certain regard section. Since Wednesday January 8, the young Guinean can now benefit from these rewards without fear of leaving French territory.
Because the young man who until then lived in Amiens in an irregular situation obtained his residence permit in France this Wednesday. For a period of one year. It was his lawyer who passed the information to AFP, thus confirming the information revealed by Ici Picardie.
“The prefect of the Somme issued him an ’employee’ residence permit this morning, valid for one year”welcomed his advisor Claire Perinaud. She specifies that the amateur actor, aged 23, produced a promise of employment as a mechanic and was able to benefit from the “Valls circular of 2012, regularization through work”.
Confident for her client, she affirms that in the future Abou Sangaré “will request renewals and may later upgrade to longer cards.” A great victory for the Guinean, whose story blurred the boundaries between fiction and reality in The Story of Souleymanedirected by Boris Lojkine.
Son « integration path » retained
If you missed the film in the theater, it tells the story of a young Guinean bicycle delivery rider in Paris as he prepares for an interview for an asylum application in France. In a very precarious situation, the portrait of this young man particularly moved the Croisette, helped by the parallels between the lives of Souleymane and that of Abou.
Because the young man had been recruited during a casting in Amiens to play this captivating role while he himself was faced with three regularization refusals. Despite being highlighted by his Cannes triumph and his more than respectable score at the French box office (522,215 admissions), Abou Sangaré’s situation seemed in bad shape last summer.
The administrative court of Amiens had validated the obligation to leave the territory imposed on him. Finally, the prefect requested a review of the young man’s situation in August, “due to the integration process of the person concerned”. A rather chaotic journey which ultimately smiled on him: already an apprentice heavy goods vehicle mechanic when he left his country with the hope of helping his sick mother, Abou – then a teenager – had crossed Mali, Algeria, Libya, the Mediterranean and Italy before arriving in 2018 in Paris, then Amiens.
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