The French Senegalese director passed on big-budget Hollywood projects before making her latest film—a fantastical documentary about art restitution.

The forum through which this entity communicates to us is Mati Diop’s “Dahomey.” The French Senegalese filmmaker returns with ...

An interview with Dahomey director Mati Diop about her documentary that observes the repatriation of Beninese artwork ...

Winner of the prestigious Golden Bear prize at this year’s Berlinale, French auteur Mati Diop’s sophomore feature, Dahomey, ...

Her first feature since 2019’s rather startling magical-neo-colonial melodrama, Atlantics, Diop’s doc leaves much unsaid for ...

“Dahomey” packs a lot of introspection and heart into its brisk 68 minutes. Actor-director Mati Diop’s documentary chronicles ...

Mati Diop’s brisk, thoughtful documentary Dahomey considers the limited yet necessary good done through restitution.

Mati Diop examines the fate of 26 treasures — sometimes from their point of view — looted from Benin in 1892. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

Filmmaker Mati Diop’s documentary Dahomey examines the complex idea of restitution. It looks at the return of 26 objects that originated from the Kingdom of Dahomey as they travel from Paris to ...

Looted by French colonial forces from the Kingdom of Dahomey (1600–1904), these represent just a fraction of some 7,000 ...

Italian actress Isabella Rossellini will receive the European Achievement in World Cinema award at the December ceremony.

The nominees for this year's European Film Awards have been unveiled, with 'Emilia Pérez,' 'The Substance' and 'The Room Next ...