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Director Mati Diop’s “Dahomey” does not shy away from this ambiguity. In fact, it embraces and relishes in the gray areas. In the end, the film’s lack of resolution is what makes it so triumphant.
ANTI-CHEF Cooking Benin: Kuli-Kuli & Dahomey Fish Stew Posted: April 3, 2025 | Last updated: April 3, 2025 I dive into the rich culinary traditions of Benin by making two iconic dishes: Kuli-Kuli ...
This season should throw more light on the organisers’ motives, while introducing new sadistic trials for the contestants. (Netflix) A still from ‘Dahomey’.
In Diop's gaze, Dahomey begins as a ghost story. This voice of the artefact is aware of the phase of transit, that a series of other statues are being taken back to their homeland. Diop gives ...
In her latest hybrid documentary, Dahomey—which won the Golden Bear at Berlinale this year—she exorcises the spirit of artifacts looted by the French from the West African kingdom of Dahomey between ...
In her Berlinale Golden Bear winner Dahomey, French-­Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop charts the return of 26 artefacts looted from the African kingdom of Dahomey as they make their way back from ...
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.
Check out the latest Workers & Resources Soviet Republic trailer to see what to expect with the World Maps DLC, available on PC (Steam, GOG, and Epic Games Store) on December 13, 2024. IGN ...
Mati Diop’s documentary Dahomey, which was selected as Senegal’s official entry for best international feature film at this year’s Academy Awards, will be available for streaming on MUBI from December ...
Winner of the prestigious Golden Bear prize at this year’s Berlinale, French auteur Mati Diop’s sophomore feature, Dahomey, is a film that invites questioning. Following the repatriation of 26 ...
The forum through which this entity communicates to us is Mati Diop’s “Dahomey.” The French Senegalese filmmaker returns with a rich and absorbing exploration of the specter of colonialism ...