For generations, the ocean along Côte d’Ivoire’s Atlantic coastline has been a source of livelihood, spirituality, and fear. Often all together at once. The water was for fishermen. The water was what elders warned the children about. Surfing, for most of the country’s history, was not a part of the program. The Rising Dawn , a new documentary from filmmakers Nadi Saddy and Nuits Balnéaires, is about the moment that started to change. Filmed over four years across remote villages, fishing communities, and little-known surf breaks — from Assinie in the east to the untouched western coast — the film follows the emergence of a new Ivorian surf culture through Souleymane Sidibé, one of the country’s pioneers. The film will show in Oceanside at the California Surf Museum on August 26th , Rivian Theater on August 29th , and at The Rive in San Diego on September 3rd. Sidibé came from a community where surfing was essentially unknown.…