2021 Atlanta Film Festival

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6 films in package
Simone: A Survivor's Story
A visually poetic diary of Ugandan model Simone Awor’s intimate journey to overcome breast cancer and find healing within herself and her community.
Scarlet Medusa
At the edge of Shirahama, a coastal tourist town in Japan, an ageing scientist works to unlock the biological secret of immortality held in the life cycle of a tiny jellyfish. At a temple in Kyoto, a Zen priest contemplates the metaphysical immortality held within a single breath.
Stunned, I Remain Alert
Journalist Dermi Azevedo has never stopped fighting for human rights. Now, more than three decades after the end of the military dictatorship in Brazil, he's witnessing the return of those same practices.
Ten Leaves Dilated
A documentary that uses the make-believe world crafted by Cabbage Patch Kids to examine discourses surrounding childbirth in the South.
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How to Disappear
An anti-war movie in the true sense of the word, searching for possibilities for peace in the most unlikely place of a war game. It’s a tribute to disobedience and desertion - in both digital and physical-real warfare.
Closed captions available
Seeking Aline
Rokhaya, a young director, returns to her home in Senegal to make a film about a local historical figure. Throughout her research, which consists of interviews with local personalities, discussions with her team and fictional scenes shot on location, we discover the story of Aline Sitoe Diatta.
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Rokhaya, a young director, returns to her home in Senegal to make a film about a local historical figure. Throughout her research, which consists of interviews with local personalities, discussions with her team and fictional scenes shot on location, we discover the story of Aline Sitoe Diatta.


This film is in the Documentary Short Competition.


MEET THE FILMMAKER: ROKHAYA MARIEME BALDE

Born in 1995 in Dakar (Senegal). She began her studies at Sup Imax Dakar (Institut Supérieur des Arts et Métiers du Numérique) in 2017. After a year of study of international business management in China and a semester of political science at the University of Montreal, she completes her Bachelor's degree in filmmaking at the HEAD of Geneva (Haute école d'art et de design) in 2020. She is now starting the ECAL/HEAD Master's degree in screenwriting.

  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    27 minutes
  • Language
    Wolof Diola French
  • Country
    Senegal, Switzerland
  • Director
    Rokhaya Marieme Balde
  • Screenwriter
    Rokhaya Marieme Balde
  • Producer
    Delphine Jeanneret
  • Cast
    Gna Gna Baro, Moise Diatta, Bruno Diatta
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