Mati’s father, Wasis Diop, is a guitarist and composer ... She felt an almost supernatural calling to tell the story of this “ghost generation,” and made a short called “Atlantics” with her footage of ...

The director observes the repatriation of 26 royal treasures to Benin from France in a short yet artful feature.

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

Whether you want to be just a little scared or pushed to the limit, LA has hundreds of different types of haunted houses. Vice Cooler, creator of Haunts of LA, is your guide. For the first time since ...

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

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 ...

For her first feature-length directorial effort, Atlantics, writer/director Mati Diop told a saga of love and ghosts. Specifically, she wove a yarn set in Dakar about Ada (Mame Bineta Sane ...

The forum through which this entity communicates to us is Mati Diop’s “Dahomey ... otherworldly quality of her 2019 breakthrough film, “Atlantics.” “Dahomey,” a formally inventive ...

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 ...

“Dahomey” packs a lot of introspection and heart into its brisk 68 minutes. Actor-director Mati Diop’s documentary chronicles the transfer of 26 royal treasures from an exhibition in Paris ...

In Mati Diop’s “Dahomey ... following 2019’s “Atlantics,” a drama set in Senegal that was something of a postcolonial ghost story. Here she deals more directly with the scars of ...

Mati Diop’s new documentary ... Her first feature since 2019’s rather startling magical-neo-colonial melodrama, Atlantics, Diop’s doc leaves much unsaid for most of the film.