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

Mati Diop never thought she’d see it in her ... I also filmed Paris from my room in a film called In My Room. I felt a need to free myself from a western culture that was really starting to ...

Actor-director Mati Diop’s documentary chronicles the transfer ... s return mirrored the journey back to the motherland that my own enslaved ancestors might have wished to make.

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 ...

Mati Diop, now in her early 40s, has been making films for 20 years, but the French-Senegalese polymath properly landed with the cinemagoing public at Cannes in 2019. Atlantics, an unclassifiable ...

In 2018, Senegalese philosopher and economist Felwine Sarr, along with French art historian Bénédicte Savoy, were ...

Production assistance by Kat Hong. New York Times critic Dwight Garner says, “The Slate Culture Gabfest is one of the highlights of my week.” The award-winning Culturefest features Slate ...

TOKYO --French director Mati Diop's documentary "Dahomey," which examines ... "I entered the judging process with my own ranking, but it kept changing as we talked. The works matured during ...

“I felt immediately an identification with the statues because the stigma of colonization is something that, in my own way, I have experienced and I’m still experiencing,” says Dahomey director Mati ...

director of Easy Rider-esque African cult hit Touki Bouki (1973), and musician dad Wasis Diop, whose move to Paris created her own duel roots. “I would have been eaten by Senegal – by those things ...