Atlantics
Short lo-fi film set in Senegal. Mostly focussing on a group of Senegalese youths, discussing their hopes and fears concerning the crossing of the atlantic to get to Europe. Will life be easier there or not?
Mati Diop
Director
Casts & Crew
Also Directed by Mati Diop
For the 30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille about thirty directors have done us the honor of offering us some very beautiful short films.
First of a triptych of shorts using, reusing, misusing unused and behind-the-scenes footage from Félicité.
Four filmmakers share a montage of their original ghost images and rushes on a mix of I've seen the future.
An American babysitter comes to look after a young French teenager in her parents' chalet in the French Alps. Teenage sexual awakening fantasy.
Film following a Vietnamese director's wanderings through Marseille after her lead actor goes missing. Karaoke, beach sunrises and diaspora reminiscences.
She used to say: “Naku Penda Piya - Naku Taka Piya – Mpenziwe” in the opening of Michael Jackson’s song Liberian Girl. Words can be mentally repeated, he would say: “I love you so much – I want you so much – My love.” With the green background, the slow chords on his electronic keyboard, the stiff strikes of musician Wilbert Gavin of the Cities Aviv band, this dancer radiates intense energy.
In Olympus, the French and senegalese director Mati Diop captures the youth of Paris on the night of a heat wave, through the eyes and movements of her brother, the model Gard Diop. A dreamy trap score soundtracks the film, turning an ordinary night into a moment suspended in time.
Christopher Columbus discovered America while looking for India. Columbus' journeys are subjective and undefined. Illusions take over objective observation. When one leaves, it is always his/ her own dreams that take off first. The edge of the world is definitely more narrow than the idea of it.
Along the Atlantic coast, a soon-to-be-inaugurated futuristic tower looms over a suburb of Dakar. Ada, 17, is 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. Several days later, a fire ruins Ada’s wedding and a mysterious fever starts to spread. Little does Ada know that Souleiman has returned.
