Name: Dahomey (PG)
Start: 2025-01-15T17:30:00+00:00
Location: 24 Church Street, TR11 3EG Falmouth, United Kingdom

Dir. Mati Diop | 2024 | 68 mins | French with English Subtitles
Winner of the coveted Golden Bear prize at the 2024 Berlinale, DAHOMEY is an immersive and astounding work of art from Mati Diop – director of the award-winning Atlantics. Delving into real perspectives on far-reaching issues surrounding appropriation, self-determination and restitution, this acclaimed documentary is a poetic look at a seldom-discussed history.
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 artifacts are due to leave Paris to return to their country of origin: the present-day Republic of Benin, Diop questions how they should be received in a country that has reinvented itself in their absence, using ethereal voiceover and footage of debating students at the University of Abomey-Calavi to offer multiple perspectives.
Shown in collaboration with Arts Society Falmouth, find out more about them here: https://www.theartssocietyfalmouth.org/
Dahomey (PG)
Wednesday 15th January, 5.30pm
Tickets: £8.00/£6.50/£6.00
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