BELGIUM | HOLLAND | DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO | FRANCE | GERMANY | SOUTH AFRICA
Language: French, Swahili, Lingala, English
90' | 2023
New Vision Prize - Cannes' Festival - Category "Un certain regard" - 2023
Prize for best director - Angoulême's film festival - 2023
Best African Film - Durban International Film festival - 2023
CineRebels Award - Filmfest Munchen - 2023
Following Koffi’s return to his birthplace after he has been ostracized by his family, ‘Omen’ explores the weight of beliefs on one’s destiny through four characters accused of being witches and sorcerers, all of them intertwined and guiding each other into the phantasmagoria of Africa.
New Vision Prize - Cannes' Festival - Category "Un certain regard" - 2023
Prize for best director - Angoulême's film festival - 2023
Best African Film - Durban International Film festival - 2023
CineRebels Award - Filmfest Munchen - 2023
MARC ZINGA
YVES-MARINA GNAHOUA
MARCEL OTETE KABEYA
ELIANE UMIRE
LUCIE DEBAY
DIRECTOR
Baloji
SCREENWRITER
Baloji
In collaboration with Thomas van Zuylen
PRODUCER
Benoit Roland
DOP
Joachim Philippe S.B.C.
SOUND
Jan Deca
SET DESIGNER
Eve Martin
COSTUME DESIGNER
Elke Hoste
Baloji
EDITOR
Bruno Tracq
Bertrand Conard
A PRODUCTION
WRONG MEN
IN COPRODUCTION WITH
NEW AMSTERDAMS
TOSALA FILMS
SPECIAL TOUCH STUDIOS
RADICALMEDIA
SERENDITPITY
BIG WORLD CINEMA
With the support of Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, New Dawn, Netherlands Film Fund, Netherlands Film Production Incentive, Berlinale World Cinema Fund, La Région de Buxelles Capitale, Govnerment of Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cultural Promotion Fund, Fonds Image de la Francophonie, Centre National du Cinéma de l'Image Animée, French Institute, Red Sea Film Fund, du Tax-Shelter of belgian govermement, en co-production avec BNP Paribas Fortis Film Finance, RTBF (Télévision belge), Proximus et Voo&betv, VRT/CANVAS, Canal +, with the participation of TV5 Monde