US EditionGolden Bear 2024 goes to Mati Diop’s restitution documentary 'Dahomey'
- Mati Diop's documentary "Dahomey" won the top prize at the Berlin film festival, celebrating the return of looted treasures from Paris to Benin.
- Other winners at the festival included filmmakers Hong Sangsoo, Bruno Dumont, Emily Watson, and Sebastian Stan, recognized for their outstanding work.
- Diop made history as the first Black director to win the Golden Bear award.
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The film by the Franco-Senegalese director, born in 1982, follows the return to Benin, in 2021, of twenty-six works of art formerly plundered by colonial French troops.
Le jury du festival a décerné l’ours d’or au grand film de cinéma réalisé par Mati Diop, dont l’histoire retrace la restitution d’objets d’art pillés lors d’une guerre coloniale au Bénin par la France. C’est la deuxième année consécutive que la France remporte ce prix avec un documentaire.
French-born director Mati Diop's documentary film Dahomey won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. The 67-minute short film by the director with Senegalese roots is about the return of 26 art treasures that were looted from Africa by the French colonial rulers in the late 19th century. In her film, Diop gives voice to both the looted royal figures who are shipped back to Benin and to Benin students who discuss the return of…
Mati Diop's 'Atlantics' won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
Tonight at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), the main Golden Bear award was presented to French-Senegalese director Mati Diop for the documentary film 'Dahomey', which deals with the issue of restitution of artworks stolen in Africa during colonialism.
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