ATLANTICS

After a group of unpaid construction workers disappears at sea one night in search of a better life abroad, the women they have left behind in Dakar are overwhelmed with a mysterious fever. 

Ada, 17, secretly grieves for her love Souleiman, one of the departed workers, but she has been promised to another man. After a fire breaks out on her wedding night, a young policeman is sent to investigate the crime. Little does he know that the aggrieved workers have come back as haunting, possessive spirits. While many of them seek vengeance for their unpaid labour, Souleiman has come back for a different purpose — to be with his Ada one last time.

Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, ATLANTICS marks the feature narrative debut of director Mati Diop.

 

Following the film there will be a panel discussion hosted by Be Manzini, award-winning poet and director of Caramel Film Club.  A recorded introduction from Mati Diop will to play before the event.

Guest speakers: Grace Barber-Plentie – freelance film writer and programmer specialising in depictions of people of colour, particularly black women, in pop culture. She also works as part of the marketing team at the British Film Institute.  Others TBC

Written by Mati Diop & Olivier Demangel

Directed by Mati Diop

RT: 107 mins

Netflix release Nov 29th November 2019