Atlantics

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. But a fire devastates the young woman's wedding party and mysterious fevers seize the girls of the neighborhood. Ada is far from suspecting that Suleiman has returned...

Keywords

• Best first feature
• Cannes: En compétition
• Female Filmmakers
• Festival de Cannes
• Fien Troch’s favourite films
• Film Fest Gent !
• Film Fest Gent (home)
• Impossible Love
• International Film Festival Rotterdam
• Les Magritte du Cinéma
• Love Story
• The Future is Female
• TIFF - Toronto International Film Festival

Actors

• Diankou Sembene
• Aminata Kane
• Ibrahima Mbaye
• Mama Sané
• Amadou Mbow
• Mame Bineta Sane
• Ibrahima Traore
• Coumba Dieng
• Matar Diouf
• Abdou Balde
• Nicole Sougou

Director

• Mati Diop