Mubi Announces The UK & Ireland Release Date For The Award-Winning Dahomey
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Carl Roberts 
From acclaimed director Mati Diop, the award-winning documentary Dahomey will open in UK & Irish cinemas on October 25th.
MUBI, the global film distributor, production company and streaming service is thrilled to announce the UK & Ireland release date for acclaimed director Mati Diop’s captivating and thought-provoking documentary DAHOMEY. In cinemas in the UK & Ireland on 25 October 2024.
AWARD-WINNING
Winner of the Golden Bear at the 2024 Berlinale. DAHOMEY is an immersive and astounding new documentary from Mati Diop (Atlantics). Delving into real perspectives on far-reaching issues surrounding appropriation, self-determination and restitution. This acclaimed feature is a poetic look at a seldom-discussed history.
SUBJECT MATTER
Taking place in November 2021, the film takes as its subject 26 royal treasures of the Kingdom of Dahomey, which, along with thousands of others, were plundered by French colonial troops in 1892. As these artefacts prepare to leave Paris for their homeland, the present-day Republic of Benin, Diop contemplates their reception in a nation that has transformed itself in their absence. He employs an ethereal voiceover and footage of students debating at the University of Abomey-Calavi to present various viewpoints.
By turns invigorating and thought-provoking, Diop’s latest uses compelling non-traditional storytelling techniques to powerfully bring the past into the present. This piece presents a fascinating and distinctive conversation starter that is both engaging and vital.
MATI DIOP
Mati Diop’s first feature, Atlantics (2019), won the Grand Prix at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival. Establishing her as one of the leading figures in international arthouse cinema and the new wave in African and diasporic cinema. Her nomadic, lyrical and political cinema crosses boundaries between genres and formats. As an extension of her dual Franco-Senegalese identity and proud Creoleness.
Dahomey will be in cinemas in the UK & Ireland on October 25th
Source: MUBI
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