A few months ago, Abou Sangare was an anonymous, 23-year-old Guinean immigrant lacking permanent legal status in northern France and, like thousands of others, fighting deportation. Now a lead actor in 'Souleymane's Story', an award-winning feature film that hit French theaters this week, his face is on every street corner and in subway stations, bus stops and newspapers. The film and Sangare's sudden success are casting light on irregular migration in France just as its new government is taking a harder line on the issue.
Sangare plays a young asylum-seeker who works as a Paris delivery man, weaving his bicycle through traffic in the City of Light. In a case of life imitating art, Sangare's future also hangs in the balance as he navigates the challenges faced by many in the immigration system, reflecting broader societal issues surrounding migration policies in France.
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