At only 68 minutes, “Dahomey” brims with plenty of perspectives on what the restitution of these ancient treasures symbolizes and the dicey political implications around it.

At only 68 minutes, “Dahomey” brims with plenty of perspectives on what the restitution of these ancient treasures symbolizes and the dicey political implications around it.

When a private museum in Benin displayed artifacts from the ancient Dahomey kingdom a decade ago, roughly a quarter-of-a-million Beninese flocked to see the exhibit — a stunning turnout for the ...

Critics Pick ‘Dahomey’ Review: Mati Diop’s Exquisitely Strange Documentary Meditation on the Return of Looted Artifacts to Benin The "Atlantics" director makes a dreamlike, discursive ...

ABOMEY, Benin -- Some of the massive, blood-red mud walls with their carefully crafted bas-relief images of past wars still stand in this ancient "City of Kings," and cannons traded by the French ...

When any king of ancient Africa’s Dahomey wanted to communicate with his dead relatives, he whispered his message into a captive’s ear and promptly beheaded said unfortunate.Did you take biology?

Mati Diop gives voices to African artifacts in the Berlin documentary "Dahomey." ... The French-Senegalese director’s first film since 2019’s “Atlantics” mulls the meaning of ancient ...

Dahomey (located in present-day Benin) was one of the most potent ancient African kingdoms where fifteen kings succeeded each other, but there is hardly a trace of women in the royal manuscripts.

“Dahomey” depicts these moments with a delicate mix of respect and intimacy. ... They have put Benin’s ancient and contemporary art scenes on the map of West Africa’s thriving art ecosystem.

A conversation-starter of a film by director Mati Diop, this brief but complex examination of a France-to-Africa transfer of ancient art asks: Who benefits?