There are a number of different folk stories about the founding of the Kingdom of Dahomey. Most scholars believe many of these stories were created or exaggerated in the 18th century to promote the ...

Tipped to be among the Best Documentary Feature nominees at next year's Oscars and also Senegal's entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards, Dahomey is thought-provoking and ...

Mati Diop’s brisk, thoughtful documentary Dahomey considers the limited yet necessary good done through restitution.

Following the repatriation of 26 royal treasures stolen by French colonial troops in 1892 from their origins in the Kingdom ...

“Dahomey,” a formally inventive documentary, traces the journey across continents of 26 artworks looted from the West African ...

The Kingdom of Dahomey’s fierce war against French colonisation was lost in 1892, when thousands of treasures were looted and shipped back to Paris. It’s part of modern Benin, where Macron ...

An interview with Dahomey director Mati Diop about her documentary that observes the repatriation of Beninese artwork ...

The movie comprises mostly observational footage shot during the shipping and repatriation of 26 objects that France had looted from the kingdom of Dahomey (now Benin) during the invasion of 1892.

It is the kingdom of Dahomey, the dominion of the great BAD-JA-HUNG, the "King of Kings," as he is styled by his loving lieges, and the seat of the slave trade. The kingdom of Dahomey boasts but ...

The thorny issue of cultural restitution is brought vividly to life in this documentary with a twist. It charts the repatriation in 2021 of 26 royal artefacts originally swiped from the Kingdom of ...

TOKYO --French director Mati Diop's documentary "Dahomey," which examines the colonialism forced on West Africa, won the ...

If a further imprimatur was required, it came when Dahomey – a breathtakingly imaginative documentary hybrid – took the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin film festival. The top prize at that ...