Watch the First Official Trailer for History-Making Senegalese Film, 'Atlantics'
The award-winning Netflix original, could become the first Senegalese feature to earn an Oscar nomination.
Atlantics, the award-winning feature directorial debut from French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop now has its first official trailer.
The film, which will be released as a Netflix original, won the Grand Prix at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, making Diop the first black woman to win an award at the festival. It has the potential to make history once again, as it's been submitted as Senegal's Oscar entry for Best International Film. If it earns the nomination, it will be the first-ever nomination for the country, as noted by Shadow & Act.
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The film, described as a "ghost love story" also touches on poignant themes of migration, inspired by the real-life experiences of Senegalese migrants who braved dangerous journeys to Spain in search of opportunity—stories which Diop centered in the first Atlantiques, a documentary-style short that led to the creation of the full length film. "I felt that my cinema should be put at the service of their voices," she told OkayAfrica in an interview last month. "I wanted to understand."
