2024年10月24日 · Her new film, a fantastical documentary titled “Dahomey,” chronicles the return of the so-called Dahomey treasures, comprising twenty-six of the many art works that French troops seized in the...

2025年2月27日 · Mati Diop has cinema in her blood. The 42-year-old Senegalese-French actress launched her feature film directing career in spectacular fashion with Atlantics, which took the top prize at the...

Dahomey: Directed by Mati Diop. With Gildas Adannou, Morias Agbessi, Maryline Agbossi, Habib Ahandessi. The journey of 26 plundered royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey exhibited in Paris, now being returned to Benin. Diop artistically voices a new generation's demands.

2025年3月8日 · Mati Diop has cinema in her blood. The 42-year-old Senegalese-French actress launched her feature film directing career in spectacular fashion with Atlantics, which took the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019 and won a string of awards. Her documentary Dahomey has made similar waves and was longlisted for the 2025 Oscars.

2024年10月31日 · Director Mati Diop’s Latest Film Charts the Return of Looted Artifacts. It Will Leave You With More Questions Than Answers. The docufiction parses the complex issues that arise from modern efforts to set historic injustices right.

2024年10月30日 · French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop’s new documentary, Dahomey (2024), examines the complexities surrounding France’s 2021 repatriation of 26 stolen treasures to the Republic of Benin...

2025年2月28日 · Mati Diop has cinema in her blood. The 42-year-old Senegalese-French actress launched her feature film directing career in spectacular fashion with Atlantics, which took the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019 and won a string of awards. Her documentary Dahomey has made similar waves and was longlisted for the 2025 Oscars.

2024年10月25日 · There are many voices in Mati Diop’s new documentary, “Dahomey” (in theaters), and one of them belongs to Artifact No. 26. “I lost myself in my dreams, becoming one with these walls, cut off...

Mati Diop (born 22 June 1982) is a French film director and actress. She won the Grand Prix at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival for her feature film debut, the supernatural romantic drama Atlantics, and the Golden Bear at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival for her second feature film, the documentary Dahomey.

Dahomey is a 2024 documentary film directed by Mati Diop. It is a dramatised account of 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey (in modern-day Benin), which were held in a museum in France. The film explores how the artifacts were returned from France to Benin, and the reactions of Beninese people. [4] .