BDC screen: “Atlantique”, by Mati Diop
On Tuesday, February 3, at 7 p.m., we present Atlantic by Mati Diop, within the Pantalla BDC cycle dedicated to The strength of the collective.
In an increasingly individualistic world, The strength of the collective raises a look at the transformative power that arises when people come together. Solidarity, cooperation and community are presented as tools to generate real changes and improve society.
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SYNOPSIS
In Dakar, on the edge of the Atlantic, a young woman named Ada (Mame Bineta Sane) loves Souleiman (Ibrahima Traoré), a construction worker who has not been paid for months. While she has been promised to another man, he and other workers decide to flee by sea in search of a better future. After his disappearance, the neighborhood begins to suffer from strange phenomena: possessions, diseases and an inexplicable fire. Souleiman returns, but as a spirit, ready to see Ada one last time.
Atlantic is Mati Diop’s first opera. The filmmaker made history in Cannes as the first black woman to compete for the Palme d’Or and win the Grand Jury Prize. With non-professional performers and a narrative between social realism and the fantastic, Diop constructs a modern fable about migration, mourning and hope, with the ocean as a powerful metaphor for separation, life and death. A visually hypnotic and highly symbolic proposal.
Direction: Mati Diop
Genre: Fantasy Drama
Duration: 106 minutes
Year: 2019
Country: Senegal
Original version in French, Wolof and English.
Subtitled in Catalan.
Recommended age: over 7 years
Category Screen: collectivity in social and political struggles.
