SCREENING IN THE BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM
“Mati Diop’s captivating, fabulistic documentary ‘Dahomey’ confronts the reality of how modernity has been shaped by the West’s theft of cultural heritage.”
68 minutes (followed by discussion). Not Rated. Directed by Mati Diop. In French with English subtitles. DCP.
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?