Trailer
Assistive Technologies

Dahomey

Runtime
1hr 8mins
Directed by
Mati Diop
Featuring
Gildas Adannou,
Habib Ahandessi,
Joséa Guedje
Film Language
in English and French with English Subtitles
Body

Winner: Golden Bear at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival. 

In 2021, 26 objects from the Kingdom of Dahomey leave Paris and are returned to present-day Benin. How should these art treasures, stolen from ancestors, be received in a country which has reinvented itself in their absence?

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