Atlantics

2019 | Belgium, France, Senegal | Mati Diop | English, Français, Wolof | 104 minutes

Ottawa Premiere the Week of December 13th!

In a popular suburb of Dakar, workers on the construction site of a futuristic tower, without pay for months, decide to leave the country by the ocean for a better future. Among them is Souleiman, the lover of Ada, promised to another.

Cannes: Grand Prize of the Jury award winner, Golden Camera, and Palme d’Or nominee!
Hamptons International Film Festival: Best Narrative Feature award winner!
London Film Festival: First Feature Competition award winner!

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.
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