Un homme observe une sculpture dans une scène du film Dahomey.

Dahomey

Mati Diop
2024 - Documentary - 68 min

International cinema


Dahomey

country:
Benin, France, Senegal
language:
French, English
subtitles:
French

November 2021. 26 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 artefacts 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? The debate rages among students at the University of Abomey-Calavi.

 

Berlin 2024 — Golden Bear prize

FST - French subtitles
EST - English subtitles
CC - Closed captions

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