Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A long-silent voice from a distant past — eerie and reverberating — awakens in the climate-controlled, antiseptic chambers of a ...

“Dahomey” packs a lot of introspection and heart into its brisk 68 minutes. Actor-director Mati Diop’s documentary chronicles the transfer of 26 royal treasures from an exhibition in Paris’s Musée du ...

Diop's documentary, screening at the Berlin Film Festival, follows 26 artifacts, which were looted in the 19th century from the kingdom of Dahomey, as they return to Benin from France. By Mia Galuppo ...

The ones that fought bravely alongside men? Well, they aren't entirely fictional. The characters of these warrior women were inspired by the Amazons of Dahomey, a fierce, all-female arm of the Dahomey ...

Dahomey’ transforms the return of stolen artefacts into a haunting, visually poetic journey inside the soul of each sculpture ...

Mati Diop’s Berlinale-winning film will also screen in Toronto and New York before opening in theaters on Oct. 18. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief The film tracks the return of 26 royal African ...

French-Senegale director Mati Diop's ‘Dahomey’ won the coveted Golden Bear prize. Director Mati Diop stands on the red carpet after being awarded a Golden Bear in the Best Film category for "Dahomey".

The documentary film "Dahomey" is a story of return, the restitution of stolen royal treasures. The 26 artifacts were among thousands taken by French colonial troops in the late 19th century from the ...

“The first shape I had in mind for this film was fiction,” filmmaker Mati Diop told a Berlin Film Festival presser this morning when quizzed on the structure of her inventive documentary Dahomey. The ...

In November 2021, 26 objects from the Kingdom of Dahomey plundered by French colonialists in 1892 were returned to Benin, the west African nation that now encompasses Dahomey that gained its ...

As soon as “The Woman King” begins, audiences will know the film is unlike any they’ve seen before. Sharpened nails are pressed into eyes, necks are slit and bodies crumble to the ground as the mighty ...