Delphine Jaquet Yanick Létourneau Ernest Konan Yoro Mbaye
Starring
Koné Bakary Isaka Sawadogo Steve Tientcheu, Nubel Felis Yan
Cinematography
Tobie Marier Robitaille
Edited by
Aube Foglia
Music by
Olivier Alary
Production companies
Banshee Films Wassakara Productions Peripheria Yennenga Production
Distributed by
Neon (United States) Axia Films (Canada)
Release date
September 6, 2020 (2020-09-06) (Venice)[1]
Running time
93 minutes
Countries
France Côte d'Ivoire Canada Senegal
Languages
French Dyula
Disambiguation: La nuit des rois is also the French title of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Night of the Kings (French: La Nuit des rois) is a 2020 fantasy drama film written and directed by Philippe Lacôte.[2] The film is produced by Delphine Jaquet (Banshee Films, France), Yanick Letourneau (Peripheria, Canada), Ernest Konan (Wassakara Productions, Côte d'Ivoire), and Yoro Mbaye (Yennenga Production, Senegal). It was selected as the Ivorian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards,[3] making the shortlist of fifteen films.[4] The film is also nominated for Best international film at the Independent Spirit Award 2021.[5]
The cast includes Koné Bakary, Isaka Sawadogo, Steve Tientcheu, Rasmané Ouédraogo, Abdoul Karim Konaté, Laetitia Ky, Nubel Feliz Yan and Denis Lavant.[2]
Announced in 2017 under the working title Zama King,[6] the film premiered at the 77th Venice International Film Festival,[2] with a follow-up screening at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival[7] where it won the Amplify Voices Award.[8] The film was one of two films featured in the Spotlight section of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.[9] It won the Black Film Critics Circle Award for Best International Film,[10] the African American Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Film[11] and the NAACP Image Awards 2021 for Outstanding International Motion Picture[12]
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^Black Film Critics Circle
^"African American Film Critics Association Awards: 'Judas and the Black Messiah' Named Best Picture". The Hollywood Reporter. March 9, 2021. Archived from the original on April 8, 2021. Retrieved April 22, 2021.
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