[ATLANTICS screens Thursday December 12th
at 8:35pm and Friday December 13th at 7:00 pm at the Cleveland
Cinematheque.
ATLANTICS (Atlantique) tells the story of Ada (Mame Bineta Sane), a young woman
living in Dakar, Senegal. She is in love with Souleiman (Ibrahima Traoré), one of the
construction workers erecting a luxury skyscraper on the seacoast, but is
betrothed to the less personable but more financially stable Omar (Babacar Sylla). It would seem Ada has a decision to make,
but the choice is taken out of her hands.
Soulemain and the rest of the workers haven’t been paid in 3
months. Hoping to find better prospects, they head out to sea. Ada doesn’t find
out until after the fact, and is understandably upset. But with her nuptials fast
approaching, she can’t exactly talk about her feelings openly, even when it begins
to seem likely that Souleiman and the others have died at sea.
