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Original name: Augure
English name: Omen
Year: 2023
Run time: 90 minutes
Language: French
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, Democratic Republic of Congo
Director: Baloji
Producer: Benoit Roland
Cast: Marc Zinga, Lucie Debay, Eliane Umuhire, Yves-Marina Gnahoua, Marcel Otete Kabeya
Screenplay: Baloji
Cinematographer: Joaquim Philippe
Editor: Bruno Tracq, Bertrand Conard
Sound Designer: Jan Deca, Erik Griekspoor, Danny Van Spreuwel
Music Composer: Liesa Van der Aa
Costume Designer: Elke Hoste , Baloji
Production Designer: Eve Martin
Production Company: Wrong Men
World Sales: Sudu
Born in 1978 in Lubumbashi (Democratic Republic of Congo) and based in Belgium, Baloji (not to be confused with the photographer Sammy Baloji) is an award-winning musician, filmmaker, a polymath artist , he’s working as art director, costume designer for fashion and other visual art forms.
Baloji name meaning refers to occult and evil forces. In Swahili, it initially meant "man of science," but in colonial times, it turned into "man of occult sciences/sorcerer". This assignment has influenced his entire work as a heavy burden to bear and, at the same time, as a driver for a playful and empirical approach, shaping his vision with an imaginary suspended between oneiric and magical realism, notably through a work on the mask and the symbolisms and its report of association of colors and sound caused by its synesthesia.
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.
