Boris Lojkine, a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure with an “agrégation” in philosophy and a thesis on “Crisis and History”, decided to leave the university after completing his thesis. He closed his books and left for Vietnam, where he had previously lived and learnt the language. There he made two documentary films, Ceux qui restent (2001) and Les âmes errantes (2005), both of which tell the Vietnamese side of the impossible mourning of men and women whose lives have been torn apart by war. With Hope (2014), his first feature film, he switches continents to immerse himself in the Africa of migrants. The film was presented at the Critics’ Week in Cannes and received dozens of awards in international festivals (including 2 Valois Awards at the Angoulême Film Festival). In 2019, Camille won the Audience Award on the Piazza Grande at the Locarno Festival, as well as the Valois and Lumière Awards for Best Actress for Nina Meurisse. Presented at the Cannes Festival 2024 in the Un Certain Regard section, The Story of Souleymane is his third film.