Mati Diop from being nominated for the Oscar

Mati Diop from winning the Grand Prize of the Cannes and the Golden Bear of the Berlinale to being nominated for the Oscar

Mati Diop, who has the Golden Bear award at the 74th Berlinale Film Festival and the Grand Prize at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival, with the Dahomey is currently in the announced shortlists of 15 films of the best foreign language film of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is present.

According to the report of Mansour Jahani, an independent and international cinema journalist, Mati Diop with the film Atlantic participated in the Main Competition section of the 72nd Cannes International Film Festival in 2019, produced by Senegal and France and won the Grand Prize, it is the second-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d’Or.

Dahomey is a 2024 documentary film directed and Screenplay by Mati Diop, Cinematography by Josephine Drouin Viallard, Editing by Gabriel Gonzalez and Producers by Eve Robin, Judith Lou Lévy, Mati Diop. The film was an international co-production between companies in France, Senegal, and Benin.

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.