2024 1h 8m Mati Diop

Dahomey

Name: Dahomey
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2024
Rating: 6.7

★ 6.7 IMDb

Documentary

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.

Writer Mati Diop

DP Josephine Drouin Viallard

Music Dean Blunt

Essays and Criticism

On this film

Dahomey by Erika Balsom, 4Columns Dahomey review – a blueprint for anti-colonialist action by David Jenkins, Little White Lies

On Mati Diop

Film/Art | In the Realm of the Senses: Mati Diop on Mille soleils by Andrea Picard, Cinema Scope Mati Diop: ‘We’re witnessing an awakening of consciousness’ by Sophie Monks Kaufman, Little White Lies

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Awards & Festivals

Nominated European Film Award for Best Film

Won Golden Bear

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