SCREENING TIMES
RUNTIME
106 min
Synopsis
Waves crash endlessly against the shores in Dakar. Ada is madly in love with Souleiman. Souleiman is tired of labouring without pay on Dakars’ gleaming towers. In the hopes for a better future he sets sail for Europe with co-workers. Ada is left to face impending marriage to another man. When a mysterious fire consumes her wedding bed, has Souleiman returned? Diop’s genre-bending debut moves between social realism, horror and fantasy to overturn the promises of migration. In Atlantics, the city is a site of feminine awakening, revealing the fortitude it takes to remain and build a future.