Dahomey is a 2024 documentary directed by Mati Diop that follows the repatriation of 26 royal treasures of the former Kingdom of Dahomey, held for decades in a French museum, back to modern day Benin, and records the reactions of Beninese people to their return. A France, Senegal and Benin co-production, it won the Golden Bear at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The film had its world premiere at the main competition of the 74th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the festival's top prize, the Golden Bear.
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Dahomey is a 2024 documentary film directed by Mati Diop. It is a dramatised account of 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey (in modern-day Benin), which were held in a museum in France. The film explores how the artifacts were
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