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 ...

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 ...

As soon as “The Woman King” begins, audiences will know the film is unlike any they’ve seen before. Sharpened nails are pressed into eyes, necks are slit and bodies crumble to the ground as the mighty ...

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 ...

NYFF: "Making films is fighting against all the stereotypes that colonialism has created," Diop told IndieWire of her documentary about the repatriation of Beninese artifacts. Mati Diop cuts a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A long-silent voice from a distant past — eerie and reverberating — awakens in the climate-controlled, antiseptic chambers of a ...