Mati Diop On ‘dahomey’: ‘it’s Time For Cinema To Welcome African Perspectives On The Black Experience’

Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire
Tue, 10/08/2024 - 11:00am

NYFF: "Making films is fighting against all the stereotypes that colonialism has created," Diop told IndieWire of her documentary about the repatriation of Beninese artifacts.

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Mati Diop on ‘Dahomey': ‘It's Time for Cinema to Welcome African Perspectives on the Black Experience'
NYFF: "Making films is fighting against all the stereotypes that colonialism has created," Diop told IndieWire of her documentary about the repatriation of Beninese artifacts.
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The Franco-Senegalese film director accompanied the repatriation of Dahomey’s 26 royal treasures from the Quai Branly Museum in Paris back to their homeland in Benin and turned it into a surreal ...
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