Atlantics: Not your usual migrant story in Mati Diop’s award-winning film
Atlantics is Mati Diop’s first feature film for which she became the first black female director to vie for the Cannes Film Festival’s most coveted prize, the Palme d’Or. She was only one of four women accepted in the festival that year. The film won the Grand Prix.
A love story, a ghost story, a not your usual story about migration, a story about the women who are left behind when their men migrate. The film’s heady, sensory mix aroused much controversy when it first premiered in 2019.