In November 2021, 26 objects from the Kingdom of Dahomey plundered by French colonialists in 1892 were returned to Benin, the west African nation that now encompasses Dahomey that gained its ...

Mati Diop’s Berlinale-winning film will also screen in Toronto and New York before opening in theaters on Oct. 18. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief The film tracks the return of 26 royal African ...

A long-silent voice from a distant past — eerie and reverberating — awakens in the climate-controlled, antiseptic chambers of a Paris museum. The forum through which this entity communicates to us is ...

In Mati Diop’s “Dahomey,” the spoils of war speak. “As far back as I can go,” says a raspy yet reverberant voice over a black screen, “there has never been a night so deep and opaque.” These are the ...

“Dahomey” packs a lot of introspection and heart into its brisk 68 minutes. Actor-director Mati Diop’s documentary chronicles the transfer of 26 royal treasures from an exhibition in Paris’s Musée du ...

Borders were often redrawn due to colonization, wars, and political agreements, leading to the disappearance of some nations that once held sovereignty. While these countries may no longer exist, ...

The Kingdom of Dahomey’s fierce war against French colonisation was lost in 1892, when thousands of treasures were looted and shipped back to Paris. It’s part of modern Benin, where Macron ...

“The first shape I had in mind for this film was fiction,” filmmaker Mati Diop told a Berlin Film Festival presser this morning when quizzed on the structure of her inventive documentary Dahomey. The ...

Emma Kiely has been with Collider since 2021 and has been Horror Editor since July 2023. Emma has a degree in English and Film from University College Dublin. For a while, due to pandemic-induced ...

“Dahomey,” a documentary directed by Cannes prizewinner Mati Diop (“Atlantique”) and slated for the Berlinale competition, will be represented internationally by Paris-based Les Films du Losange. The ...

In 2021, 26 treasures that French colonial troops had pillaged from the African kingdom of Dahomey in 1892 made the long journey home from a museum in Paris to what is now the Republic of Benin. Their ...

Mati Diop likes summoning spirits. In 2019’s Cannes-premiering Atlantics, the ghosts of young Senegalese men lost in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Dakar come back to haunt people in their bid to ...