OMEN | AUGURE

BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, DR CONGO | 2023 | COLOR | DCP | 91’| FRENCH, SWAHILI, LINGALA, ENGLISH

Koffie lives in Belgium with his girlfriend. He is an outcast from his African family, because of a demonic sign in his face. Prior to becoming a father he decides to return so as to reconcile. An epileptic seizure opens the door to the psychedelic feast that follows. Paco is a member of an adolescent gang of cross dressers, dipped in glitter and violence. He and his queer friends dress in pink in a Congo resembling a ‘Mad Max’ filmed during the New Orleans carnival. Chapters of this African anthology seem random but they are all interconnected in a cinematic dimension where the screenplay gives way to legend and the voodoo meets phantasmagoria. D.P.

DIRECTOR: Baloji
SCREENWRITERS: Baloji, Thomas van Zuylen
DoP: Joachim Philippe
EDITORS: Bertrand Conard, Bruno Tracq
PRINCIPAL CAST: Marc Zinga, Lucie Debay, Eliane Umuhire, Yves-Marina Gnahoua, Marcel Otete Kabeya

BALOJI
Belgian director, rapper and hip hop artist, born in Congo. Delivered his first short in 2019 and this is his feature film debut which won New Voice Prize in ‘Un Certain Regard’ in Cannes Film Festival. 

FILMOGRAPHY
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