Atlantiques (Atlantics)

Mati Diop

L'Alternativa Parallel
Djibril Diop Mambéty / Mati Diop

Institut Francès
Tuesday 18 @ 19:00 h

Country: France
Year: 2009
Format: Digital
Length: 16 min
Image: Colour
Language: Wolof
Subtitles: Spanish

Production company: Natalia Trebik / Corinne Castel / Le Fresnoy / Anna Sanders Films
Screenplay: Mati Diop
Photography: Mati Diop
Editor: Nicolas Milteau
Music: Bent
Sound: Papi M'Bow, Mansour Dieng
Actors: Serigne Seck, Alpha Diop, Cheikh M'Baye, Ouli Seck, Asta M'Boup

Contact: Institut Français

Presented by: Michel Amarger

Synopsis

In Mati Diop's first short film, a boy from Dakar tells his two friends the story of his sea voyage as a stowaway. Not only he but everyone around him seems to be obsessed by the idea of trying to cross the sea. His words reverberate like a melancholy poem. A story about boys who are constantly travelling: between past, present and future, between life and death, history and myth.