Memento International Picks Up Cannes’ Un Certain Regard-Bound ‘Omen’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comelskes editor Memento International is set to represent global rights to “Omen,” the feature debut of Belgian-Congolese artist-turned filmmaker Baloji Tshiani which is slated to world premiere at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard.
Tshiani previously directed several short films including “Zombies” which played at the BFI London film festival. Blurring the lines between reality and the realm of dreams, “Omen” follows Kofi, who return to his birthplace after being ostracized by his family.
The movie 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.
The film stars Marc Zinga (“Tori and Lokita,” “Dheepan’”) Lucie Debay (“Our Men”) and Eliane Umuhire (“Birds Are Singing in Kigali”). “I like to describe ‘Omen’ as a chimerical film, an ode to the imaginary and the visceral, evoking the spirits of the departed as much as the boundless energy of childhood,” said Tshiani.
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