“Saloum” is a mysterious genre-shifting thriller that mixes revolutionary politics with the supernatural. The brainchild of writer-director Jean Luc Hebulot, known for his gripping Netflix series Sakho & Mangane, “Saloum” premiered in the Toronto International Film Festival. Set against the backdrop of the 2003 Guinea-Bissau military-backed coup d'etat, an elite trio of mercenaries extract a drug dealer and his wares from the chaos to take him to Dakar, Senegal. The escape goes awry, leaving them stranded in the Sine-Saloum Delta, an area rife with myth and mystery. It's here that the mercenaries face an unexpected foe from local legend.