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Original title: Dahomey
Year: 2024
Running time: 67 min.
Country: France
Director: Mati Diop
Screenwriter: Mati Diop
Cast: Documentary
Music: Wally Badarou, Dean Blunt
Cinematography: Josephine Drouin Viallard
Producer: Co-production France-Senegal-Benin;
Les Films du Bal, Fanta Sy. Distributor: Les Films du Losange
Genre: Documentary | Africa. Colonialism
Synopsis: November 2021. 26 royal treasures of 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 what attitude to adopt to these ancestors’ homecoming in a country that had to forge ahead in their absence? The debate rages among students at the University of Abomey-Calavi.

Awards: 2024: Berlin International Film Festival: Golden Bear - Best Picture.

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Dahomey

2024

Mati Diop