WRONG MEN - OMEN

OMEN

a film by BALOJI

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


SYNOPSIS

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.

FESTIVALS / AWARDS

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

CAST

MARC ZINGA

YVES-MARINA GNAHOUA

MARCEL OTETE KABEYA

ELIANE UMIRE
LUCIE DEBAY

CREW

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