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DAHOMEY

  • 2024
  • 1 HR, 8 min
  • JAN 31 → FEB 6
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Released October 25, 2024, Senegal, France
Documentary
1 hour, 8 minutes
Mubi
French with English Subtitles
Starring
  • Gildas Adannou
  • Morias Agbessi
  • Maryline Agbossi
  • Habib Ahandessi
Director

Mati Diop

Film Information

From acclaimed filmmaker Mati Diop (Atlantics), DAHOMEY is a poetic and immersive work of art that delves into real perspectives on far-reaching issues surrounding appropriation, self-determination and restitution. Set in November 2021, the documentary charts 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey that are due to leave Paris and return to their country of origin: the present-day Republic of Benin.

Using multiple perspectives Diop questions how these artifacts should be received in a country that has reinvented itself in their absence. Winner of the coveted Golden Bear prize at the 2024 Berlinale, DAHOMEY is an affecting though altogether singular conversation piece that is as spellbinding as it is essential.

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Full Cast
Gildas Adannou
Morias Agbessi
Maryline Agbossi
Habib Ahandessi
Additional Credits
Mati Diop Director
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Reviews

“At only 68 minutes, Dahomey brims with plenty of perspectives on what the restitution of these ancient treasures symbolizes and the dicey political implications around it.”

Carlos Aguilar
Los Angeles Times

“… the film takes on a dreamy quality that puts the immediate debates in cultural and temporal perspective.”

Alissa Wilkinson
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