This year, the major international film festival will once again take place in Cannes, from May 14 to 25, 2019. For this 72nd edition, Senegal will be represented in the official selection. Among the 19 films competing for the Palme d'Or is the feature film "Atlantique," directed by French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop.
Shot in Senegal, in a working-class suburb of Dakar, the film tells the story of workers on a futuristic tower construction site who, having not been paid for months, decide to leave the country in search of a better future.
This is the first feature film by Mati Diop, niece of director Djibril Diop Mambety, who made her debut in cinema as an actress (35 Rhums by Claire Denis) and then as a director with a first medium-length film entitled "Mille Soleils."