Atlantics

Mati Diop's award-winning debut feature and Cannes Grand Prix winner is a neocolonialist ghost tale set in Dakar, following Ada as she sacrifices her passion for a construction worker lost to the Atlantic during a desperate migration attempt. After Souleiman and his fellow laborers vanish at sea, their spectral forms haunt the abandoned girls of the city, who develop a sweating sickness. A haunting indictment of economic exploitation, blending romance, supernatural horror, and coming-of-age storytelling.