Here’s the new trailer for a film which broke out at this year’s Cannes Film Festival in May – Atlantics, which was subsequently bought up by Netflix.
After a group of unpaid construction workers disappears at sea one night in search of a better life abroad, the women they have left behind in Dakar are overwhelmed with a mysterious fever. Ada, 17, secretly grieves for her love Souleiman, one of the departed workers, but she has been promised to another man. After a fire breaks out on her wedding night, a young policeman is sent to investigate the crime. Little does he know that the aggrieved workers have come back as haunting, possessive spirits. While many of them seek vengeance for their unpaid labor, Souleiman has come back for a different purpose – to be with his Ada one last time.
Atlantics was the 2019 Grand Prix winner at Cannes Film Festival and marks the feature narrative debut for director Mati Diop. The film has been selected as Senegal’s official entry for the best international feature film at the 92nd Academy Awards in 2020.
Atlantics will be on your Netflix screens from 29th November with the film also getting a cinema run a week earlier.
Here’s the new trailer.
