Netflix's Senegalese drama 'Atlantics' from Mati Diop won the debut feature competition.
, which became the first film from a black female director to play in Cannes' official competition earlier this year, won London's first feature competition. The drama, a genre-shifting portrait of a girl's awakening in Dakar, has been picked up by Netflix, and was submitted by Senegal to the next Academy Awards.
is a film that intrigued us by its original and refreshing use of genre elements in a story that also has a strong political impact," said first feature competition president Jessica Hausner. The first feature jury also gave a special commendation to Bora Kim's, Rubika Shah's profile of the punky reggae protest movement Rock Against Racism, won the documentary award.
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