Dir. Mati Diop
2024 | 68 mins | France, Senegal, Benin
French, Fon, with English subtitles

Showing Times

• Sat 09 Nov: 4.15pm
• Sun 10 Nov: 6.30pm
• Mon 11 Nov: 12.25pm
• Wed 13 Nov: 6.45pm* + Reclaim the Frame Intro

* Descriptive Subtitling (DS)
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Director Mati Diop turns her hand to documentarty in this Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear winner.

In 2021, 26 objects from the Kingdom of Dahomey leave Paris and are returned to present-day Benin. How should these art treasures, stolen from ancestors, be received in a country which has reinvented itself in their absence?

Observational and typically layered with supernatural moments (like her first feature ATLANTICS) Diop approaches the contemporary questions around belonging in our postcolonial world by examining ownership and exhibition, and employing multiple points of view, including—most strikingly—those of the artifacts themselves as they sail in darkness over the ocean to their rightful home.

BBFC Rating

Rated PG -mild threat, discrimination references