• Directed by: Mati Diop
  • Language: English and French with English subtitles
  • Year: 2024
  • Duration: 68min
  • Certificate: PG
  • Type: Film

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.

"Electrifying... a bewitching work of speculative documentary"

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