SCREENING TIMES
RUNTIME
106 min
Synopsis
Film 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.