A long-silent voice from a distant past — eerie and reverberating — awakens in the climate-controlled, antiseptic chambers of a Paris museum. The forum through which this entity communicates to us is ...

Mati Diop’s Berlinale-winning film will also screen in Toronto and New York before opening in theaters on Oct. 18. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief The film tracks the return of 26 royal African ...

After her breakthrough feature “Atlantics” turned heads in 2019, filmmaker Mati Diop has again scored accolades with “Dahomey,” which just emerged victorious as the winner of the 2024 Golden Bear at ...

Diop's documentary, screening at the Berlin Film Festival, follows 26 artifacts, which were looted in the 19th century from the kingdom of Dahomey, as they return to Benin from France. By Mia Galuppo ...

In 2021, 26 treasures that French colonial troops had pillaged from the African kingdom of Dahomey in 1892 made the long journey home from a museum in Paris to what is now the Republic of Benin. Their ...

Somebody — or something — is speaking from inside a timber crate. “It’s so dark in here… a night so deep and opaque” read the subtitles; the voice is speaking in Fon, the local language of the West ...

Berlin: The French-Senegalese director’s first film since 2019’s “Atlantics” mulls the meaning of ancient treasures in defining identities When Europe’s great powers raced to colonize a continent in ...

A travel documentary doesn’t often focus on the return journey. Its homecomers aren’t often repatriated relics, handed over by those who looted them. But Dahomey, flying from the bowels of a Parisian ...

Exclusive: The Oscar contender will continue on the festival circuit with TIFF and NYFF screenings. Set in November 2021, the Golden Bear-winning film charts 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of ...

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.” These are the ...

A long-silent voice from a distant past — eerie and reverberating — awakens in the climate-controlled, antiseptic chambers of a Paris museum. The forum through which this entity communicates to us is ...