Our connections to the larger world are much more expansive than that. Diop returns behind the camera in the documentary Dahomey to explore another more tactile way the past endures. Dahomey's ...

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 ...

Winner of the prestigious Golden Bear prize at this year’s Berlinale, French auteur Mati Diop’s sophomore feature, Dahomey ... to 1848), Dahomey shapes its world by intertwining its ...

The forum through which this entity communicates to us is Mati Diop’s “Dahomey.” The French Senegalese filmmaker returns with a rich and absorbing exploration of the specter of colonialism ...

Throughout the movie “Dahomey,” the eerie voice of a 19th ... “The government wants to show the world that it’s working on these issues, but does it listen to its own population?” ...

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

She spliced shots of liminal spaces and moments of solitude with footage of priceless Beninese statues and artworks, looted by the French during the invasion of the Kingdom of Dahomey in the late ...

"November 9, 2021: 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey are due to leave Paris, returning to their land of origin, the present-day Republic of Benin. "These artefacts are among thousands ...

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 ...

“Dahomey” packs a lot of introspection and ... artifacts and art is a timely topic affecting museums around the world, and Diop examines the issue from several perspectives, both factual ...

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.” ...

The forum through which this entity communicates to us is Mati Diop’s “Dahomey.” The French Senegalese filmmaker returns with a rich and absorbing exploration of the specter of colonialism ...