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Dahomey
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Berlinale

2024
The documentary awarded the Golden Bear at the 2024 Berlinale. The journey of 26 plundered royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey exhibited in Paris, now being returned to Benin.
November 2021. 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey are about to leave Paris to return to their country of origin, the present-day Republic of Benin. Along with thousands of others, these artefacts were plundered by French colonial troops in 1892. But how will the homeland, whose path has been dramatically altered over several decades, receive them? The debate rages among students at the University of Abomey-Calavi.
Directed by
Mati Diop
Written by
Mati Diop
Edited by
Gabriel Gonzalez
Cinematography
Joséphine Drouin-Viallard
Sound by
Nicolas Becker
Music by
Wally Badarou, Dean Blunt
Starring
Gildas Adannou, Habib Ahandessi, Joséa Guedje
Original title
Dahomey
English title
Dahomey
Year
2024
Country
France, Senegal, Benin
Language
EN, FR
Subtitles
CZ, EN
Running time
68 min
Genre
Documentary
Age rating
15+
Release date
14. 11. 2024

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Media reception

The Guardian
★★★★ "Interrogative reverie about looted African sculptures."
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The Hollywood Reporter
"Mati Diop folds the poetic into the political, without ever becoming didactic."
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