University of Manchester provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Dahomey, a new documentary film from the award-winning French director Mati Diop, follows the unconditional ...

By Elian Peltier Reporting from Abomey and Cotonou, Benin. Throughout the movie “Dahomey,” the eerie voice of a 19th century West African king emerges from the depths of history.

The documentary film "Dahomey" is a story of return, the restitution of stolen royal treasures. The 26 artifacts were among thousands taken by French colonial troops in the late 19th century from the ...

Its homecomers aren’t often repatriated relics, handed over by those who looted them. But Dahomey, flying from the bowels of a Parisian museum to the lively debate floor at the University of ...

If a further imprimatur was required, it came when Dahomey – a breathtakingly imaginative documentary hybrid – took the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin film festival. The top prize at that ...

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 ...

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.” ...

“Dahomey,” “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found,” “The Remarkable Life of Ibelin,” “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” and “Sugarcane” are among the 20 nonfiction films that have made the ...

But this remains a lucid piece of work that lays out its arguments in sharp fashion. Dahomey deals with the gestural return of 26 historically significant objects – out of many thousands – to ...

Disorientation awaits in the brilliant, bracing documentary Dahomey. In a world of endless running times, the film says what it wants in little more than an hour, mostly with calm, functional ...

Mati Diop never thought she’d see it in her lifetime: 26 royal artifacts, pillaged by the French from the kingdom of Dahomey, finally repatriated from Paris to present-day Benin over a century ...