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International Competition

OMEN
AUGURE

• Director: Baloji
• BELGIUM, THE NETHERLANDS, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO / 2023 / DCP / Colour / 91’ / French, Swahili, Lingala, English; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Baloji
• Director of Photography: Joaquim Philippe
• Editing: Bruno Tracq, Bertrand Conard
• Music: Liesa Van der Aa
• Cast: Marc Zinga, Lucie Debay, Eliane Umuhire, Yves-Marina Gnahoua, Marcel Otete Kabeya
• Producer: Benoit Roland
• Production Co.: Wrong Men
• World Sales: Memento International

2023 Cannes New Voice Prize - Un certain regard
2023 Angoulême Best Director
2023 Durban Best African Feature
2023 Munich CineRebels Award
2024 Magritte Awards (Belgium) Best Supporting Actress, Best Photography, Best Set Design, Best Costume, Best Original Music

The directorial debut of Belgian-Congolese rapper and visual artist Baloji, Omen is a visually stunning film about prejudice, identity, and social injustice. The film follows Koffi, one of these four characters, who is banished from his hometown in Congo. Fifteen years later, Koffi returns to confront his past and find redemption. Employing a unique blend of realism and fantasy, 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. Belgium’s Oscars nominee, Omen features a diverse cast of professional and non-professional actors from Congo, Belgium, and France. Four music albums, each written from the point of view of the four characters, were written and published by Baloji.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.