This is not a simple documentary about the repatriation of precious artefacts. Director Mati Diop literally gives her country ...
Analysis - Mati Diop has cinema in her blood. The 42-year-old Senegalese-French actress launched her feature film directing career in spectacular fashion with Atlantics, which took the top prize at ...
Who owns arts and culture? This is a question that is given much consideration in the film, “Dahomey.” At just over an hour ...
In Dahomey, Mati Diop’s contemplative documentary, the voice of Artefact 26, a wooden statue looted from Benin draws us into ...
Further awards seasons hopefuls also featured in the Lumière prizes, with Mati Diop’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner Dahomey – which made it into Best International Feature Film (for Senegal ...
A scrappy UHF station with its finger on the pulse of a thriving music scene, the three films that swept all five of the top ...
"The Woman King" is set in the 1800s and tells the story of the Agojie, an all-woman army of warriors who protect the African kingdom of Dahomey. Faced with a new enemy determined to destroy their ...