Technically speaking, Atlantique is the other feature debut in the main comp. With filmmaking in her family blood, Mati Diop the face is recognizable via Claire Denis’ 35 Shots of Rum and Antonio Campos’ Simon Killer but her name is now synonymous with filmmaking. She got into the directing game back with the 2009 short Atlantiques and medium-length docu Mille soleils (2013). Sharing screen-writing duties here with Olivier Demangel, this Belgium, France, Senegal co-production and multilingual subtitled drama filmed on the beaches of Dakar, looks at a better future with mysterious elements to cuff this as a more haunting tale of love.

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