Golden Stallion of Yennenga, FDCT Special Award, Ousmane Sembène Award by the ECOBANK Foundation, UEMOA Special Award for Best Fiction Feature, African Critics Award – FESPACO 2025
After a failed conspiracy against the crown, King Pazouknaam names his cousin Katanga as head of the armed forces. Pushed by his ambitious wife, Katanga kills the king and takes the throne—and then there is no deed too low to keep his grip on power. Dani Kouyate’s dream-like and delirious drama re-imagines Shakespeare's Macbeth, working between the visible and invisible, and between the natural and supernatural, transporting it to a universe completely African.
Dani Kouyaté is descended from a family of practicing griots. He is a storyteller, musician, and director of theater and film. He teaches in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University and in the School of Cinema and Theater at Wiks Folkhögskola in Uppsala, Sweden. KATANGA: THE DANCE OF THE SCORPIONS is his sixth feature film.
Festivals Sudu
