Mati Diop, with her submission of "Atlantics" to the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, is the first black woman director in history to compete in the festival's competition. (NYT 5/22/19)
One of the first Netflix films to be granted a Blu-ray release on The Criterion Collection. The others are Roma (2018), Fábrica americana (2019), Historia de un matrimonio (2019) and El irlandés (2019). (This news was announced in early 2020. As of late 2024, Atlantics and American Factory remain unreleased.)
Netflix acquired the film during its run at the Cannes Film Festival.
The Senegalese entry for the Best International Feature at the 92nd Academy Awards. It failed to make the final five.