DAHOMEY

By Mati DIOP

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Documentary - Completed 2024


Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - EFM 2024
Golden Bear
    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Art - Culture
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, BENIN, SENEGAL
    • Languages
    • Other, FRENCH
    • Duration
    • 68 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Mati DIOP
    • Synopsis
    • November, 2021. Twenty-six royal treasures of the Kingdom of Dahomey are about to leave Paris to return to their country of origin, the present-day Republic of Benin. Along with thousands of others, these artifacts were plundered by French colonial troops in 1892. But what attitude to adopt to these ancestors’ homecoming in a country that had to forge ahead in their absence? While the soul of the artifacts is freed, debate rages among students of the University of Abomey-Calavi.