Wùlu – Wellington Film Society

Daouda Coulibaly, France/Senegal 2016, 95 minutes HD R16 violence, drug use,sexual material, content that may disturb.

Malian director Daouda Coulibaly’s auspicious debut is a pulse-pounding political thriller about a low-level transit worker turned drug trafficker, whose rapid ascent in Bamako’s criminal underworld entangles him with the military, the government, and eventually al-Qaeda. Suspenseful and impeccably paced, Coulibaly’s first feature marks him as a director to watch, a filmmaker equally skilled at crafting thrilling set pieces and at shining a critical light on systems of power.

- Cameron Bailey, Toronto International Film Festival 2016.