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Dahomey
SummaryThe journey of 26 plundered royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey exhibited in Paris, now being returned to Benin. Diop artistically voices a new generation's demands.

Directed By:Mati Diop

Dahomey

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85
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Metascore
85
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23 Reviews
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Nov 7, 2024
100
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Diop’s latest documentary film is a poetic witnessing of the contradictions, mediations and politics of cultural restitution.
Oct 29, 2024
90
New York Magazine (Vulture)
If the rest of the film takes a somber, poetic perspective on the symbolic and literal nature of this partial restoration of a lost heritage, its youth represents a bold, discordant, and exciting counterpoint — vital and engaged, looking toward a future they demand be better than the past.
Feb 23, 2024
90
The Hollywood Reporter
Diop folds the poetic into the political, without ever becoming didactic.
Mar 8, 2024
88
Slant Magazine
Mati Diop’s captivating, fabulistic documentary Dahomey confronts the reality of how modernity has been shaped by the West’s theft of cultural heritage.
Oct 24, 2024
80
The Irish Times
The cool, often static shots and unhurried editing are characteristic of a school of documentary film-making that allows the viewer complete freedom to shuffle significances. There is a beauty in the empty precision.
Feb 23, 2024
80
Screen Daily
[An] agile, cerebral film.
Oct 23, 2024
70
Collider
Dahomey may not be for everyone. Unless you’re a history nut or anthropologist, there will be lulls when you find your concentration lagging. However, at a runtime of just over an hour, Diop makes every shot count and packs centuries of history, injustice, and triumph into a dense but vivid documentary.
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Dec 13, 2024
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alanpotter17
Dahomey é sobre processos de colonização, aculturação, ao qual o povo de Benin está submetido, com um começo mais contemplativo mostrando 26 peças que o governo de Macron devolve ao país de origem. Após esse ato inicial, vem a porrada: a forma como a população, eme especial os estudantes, recebem os artefatos, pondo em choque os conflitos multiculturais, bem como as boas intenções do governo francês, assim como expondo as feridas de tal dano, irreparável. Assim, o clímax é basicamente baseado nos dicursos dessas pessoas. Se como cinema mais parece uma conferência filmada, por outro lado, não há como ignorar as fortes falas, com uma riqueza antropológica e sociológica dignas de excelentes reflexões.
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  • Les Films du Bal
  • Fanta Sy
  • Arte France Cinéma
  • République Du Bénin
  • Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
  • La Région Île-de-France
  • Arte France
  • Fonds de Promotion de l'Industrie Cinématographique et Audiovisuelle du Sénégal (FOPICA)
  • Hiris Production
Oct 25, 2024
1 h 8 m

Awards

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
ZagrebDox
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
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