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Atlantiques

Atlantiques

Mati Diop

  • Country: Senegal, France
  • Year: 2009
  • Language: Wolof
  • Producer: Mati Diop
  • Executive Producer: Le Fresnoy
  • Screenplay: Mati Diop
  • Runtime: 15
  • Programmes:

Winner of International Film Festival Rotterdam's Best Short Film Award, Atlantiques is by Mati Diop, who recently starred in Claire Denis's 35 Rhums. Atlantiques recounts the oddysey of Senegalese friends who attempt a life-threatening boat crossing. Melancholic and mysterious, the film urgently and elegantly addresses the perils of illegal migration.

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Winner of International Film Festival Rotterdam's Best Short Film Award, Atlantiques is by Mati Diop, who recently starred in Claire Denis's 35 Rhums. Atlantiques recounts the oddysey of Senegalese friends who attempt a life-threatening boat crossing. Melancholic and mysterious, the film urgently and elegantly addresses the perils of illegal migration.

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screening times

    • Sunday September 12
    • 9:15:00 PM
    • JACKMAN HALL - AGO

Note: indicates Premium Screening.

official description

The recent devastating oil spill in the Gulf of New Mexico, with its Turneresque images of death at sea, perfectly encapsulate this paradox, as does the mysterious and melancholic Atlantiques by Mati Diop. Like a feverish dream, a young man speaking in hushed tones describes his high-seas odyssey to friends huddled around a campfire in Dakar. As he describes “the sea that never ends,” his attempts at clandestine immigration are rendered real and fictive.

director bio

Mati Diop was born in Paris and is an actor and filmmaker. She joined the Pavillon artistic laboratory of the Palais de Tokyo in 2006 and the National Studio of Contemporary Arts Fresnoy in 2007. Her short films include Last Night (04) and 1000 suns (08).

full credits

Principal Cast: Serigne Seck, Alpha Diop, Cheikh M’Baye, Ouli Seck, Asta M’Boup
Producer: Mati Diop
Executive Producer: Le Fresnoy
Cinematographer: Mati Diop
Editor: Mati Diop
Sound: Sylvain Copans
Music: Bent
Production Designer: Mati Diop
     
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