Mati DIOP - Senegal
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 Suleiman, Ada’s lover, and she is promised to be married to another men.
Gender : Fiction
Duration : 104 min
Year of production : 2019
Country : Senegal
Casting : Mame Bineta Sane – Amadou - Mbow - Ibrahima Traoré - Aminata Kane - Fatou Sougou
Screenwriter : Mati Diop - Olivier Demangel
Cinematography : Claire Mathon
Editor : Aël Dallier Vega
Director : Mati DIOP
Production company : Les films du BAL – Cinekap - Farkas Productions
Mati DIOP
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 Suleiman, the lover of Ada, promised to another. Her short films have been screened at international festivals, including Atlantics, which won the Tiger for Best Short Film in 2010 in Rotterdam. In 2018, she directed her first feature film Atlantics, which was selected in official competition at Cannes 2019 and won the Palme d’Or.
