USA / 2015 / Drama / English and French

Sierra Leone, summer 2014. Abdu is quarantined because he is suspected of having Ebola. Contained alone, he starts to question his health and his psychological state deteriorates.

Mamadou Dia

Mamadou is a Senegalese director based in New York. He received a Masters in Filmmaking from the Tisch School of the Arts (NYU). Before moving to the US he worked as a videojournalist and camera operator in Senegal for more than eight years. His short film, Contained, is based on true events that happened in Sierra Leone when he was covering the Ebola outbreak in 2014. His short film Samedi Cinema (2016) premiered at the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals, and won the CH Cinema Network Prize at the Fribourg International Film Festival in 2017. His debut feature film, Nafi's Father (2019), won the Golden Leopard in the Filmmakers of the Present competition and the First Feature award at Locarno International Film Festival. Learn More