Mati Diop is an actress and filmmaker (and niece of acclaimed Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty). In 2019, she released her feature film debut Atlantics, a story about migration that seamlessly blends politics, romance, and the spiritual/supernatural.
Mati Diop
Paris, France
Films
Dahomey
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Currently screening at select film festivals
(2024)
In 2021, 26 objects from the Kingdom of Dahomey leave Paris and returned to present-day Benin. How should these art treasures, stolen from ancestors, be received in a country that has reinvented itself in their absence?
Atlantics
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(2019)
In a popular suburb of Dakar, workers on the construction site of a futuristic tower, without pay for months, decide to leave the country by the ocean for a better future. Among them is Souleiman, the lover of Ada, who is promised to another.
