Dahomey

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?

French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop (Atlantics) takes on a hot topic of the culture wars - the decolonisation of European museums - and weaves from it a beguiling meditation on identity, ancestry and the weight of history.