Touki Bouki
The Journey of the Hyena.
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An avant-garde, visually poetic road film about two young lovers chasing escape and reinvention, told through fragmented, dreamlike imagery that resists conventional narrative.
Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.
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