ATLANTICS

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ATLANTICS

Photo Les Films du Bal

ATLANTICS

Photo Les Films du Bal

ATLANTICS

Photo Les Films du Bal

ATLANTICS

Photo Les Films du Bal

ATLANTICS

Photo Les Films du Bal

ATLANTICS

Film Info

France 2019 | 105 min. Director: Mati Diop

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Project / Host

European Film Awards

ATLANTICS

Synopsis

Along the Atlantic coast, a soon-to-be-inaugurated futuristic tower looms over a suburb of Dakar. Ada, 17, is in love with Souleiman, a young construction worker. But she has been promised to another man. One night, Souleiman and his co-workers leave the country by sea, in hope of a better future. Several days later, a fire ruins Ada’s wedding and a mysterious fever starts to spread. Little does Ada know that Souleiman has returned.

Cast & Crew

Director

Mati Diop
Producer

Judith Levy
Screenwriter

Mati Diop, Olivier Demangel
Director of photography

Claire Mathon
Main Cast

Mama Sane (Ada), Amadou Mbow (Issa), Ibrahima Traore (Souleiman), Nicole Sougou (Dior), Amina Kane (Fanta), Mariama Gassama (Mariama), Coumba Dieng (Thérèse), Ibrahima Mbaye (Moustapha)
Editor (Cut)

Ael Dallier Vega
Sound Design

Benoît de Clerck, Emmanuel de Boissieu
Original Score

Fatima Al Qadiri
Production Design

Pascal Metge, Oumar Sall
VFX Supervisor

Alain Carsoux , Michel Denis
Costume Design

Rachèle Raoult
Makeup

Léonie Carmela Mendy

Biography

Trained in Le Fresnoy (National Studio of Contemporary Arts – a leading and very selective French artistic institution), Mati Diop directed four shorts and a medium-length film which received the "Martin E. Segal - Emerging Artist Award" of the Lincoln Center (USA) in 2016.

A THOUSAND SUNS (2013), BIG IN VIETNAM (2011), SNOW CANON (2010) and ATLANTIQUES (2009) were selected and awarded in a wide number of international festivals such as the Venice Film Festival, Toronto IFF, IFF Rotterdam, the Viennale, IndieLisboa and FID Marseille. They were also programmed in the MoMA and in the Moving Image Museum (USA).

As an actress, Mati Diop played in HERMIA Y HELENA by director Matias Piñeiro (2015), FORT BUCHANAN by Benjamin Crotty (2014), SIMON KILLER by Antonio Campos (2012) and 35 SHOTS OF RHUM by Claire Denis (2008).

Filmography:
2019 - ATLANTICS
2013 - A THOUSAND SUNS, short
2012 - BIG IN VIETNAM, short
2011 - SNOW CANON, short
2009 - ATLANTIQUES, short