Succession creator Jesse Armstrong will be among the headline speakers at this year's inaugural cinema programme at the Hay ...

This is not a simple documentary about the repatriation of precious artefacts. Director Mati Diop literally gives her country's royal treasures a voice in this rich and eerie film.

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“Dahomey,” from French actress/filmmaker Mati Diop (“Atlantics”), follows a collection of lost treasures from the titular kingdom (including one whose internal thoughts we hear) as they ...

Who owns arts and culture? This is a question that is given much consideration in the film, “Dahomey.” At just over an hour long, this is a poetic look at the ...

Her documentary Dahomey won the top award at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival. Over the past few years, Diop has become established as one of the most creative artistic voices making films ...

A scrappy UHF station with its finger on the pulse of a thriving music scene, the three films that swept all five of the top ...

These artefacts are "royal treasures", an early title card in Mati Diop's documentary Dahomey informs us, that were pilfered from the kingdom of Dahomey by French colonisers in an 1892 invasion.

Mati Diop has cinema in her blood. The 42-year-old Senegalese-French actress launched her feature film directing career in ...