Director Mati Diop’s Cannes prize-winning film, Atlantics, is an intense young love story rooted in elements of the supernatural. It’s set along the Atlantic coast where a soon-to-be-in…
, is an intense young love story rooted in elements of the supernatural. It’s set along the Atlantic coast where a soon-to-be-inaugurated futuristic tower looms over a suburb of Dakar. There in the capital of Senegal is seventeen-year-old Ada, who 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.
“I kept on thinking about the desire, but mostly the need, the write a feature about the situation of migration but from another point of view,” said Diop following a screening her film as part of Deadline’s Awardsline screening series. On the decision to tell the story through a woman’s point of view, the director shared that “it wasn’t necessarily going to be a young woman, a young girl in relationship to a brother or a lover. I really wanted to write a love story because I thought, I felt was missing in cinema today. To propose a strong love story between two young people from Dakar, young black character. It was maybe 5 or 6 years ago and I said ‘yes it is definitely something I want to see on the big screen.
“The post-colonial issues and complexity is something that’s part of me,” said Diop. “That what makes making a film in this context even more challenging, ambitious, and exciting because it becomes territorial.”
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