A documentary about the restitution of Benin artwork by the French government this year’s winner of the Berlin Film ...

Streaming on MUBI, the hybrid documentary wrestles with identity and cultural legacy across generations.

"Dahomey" filmmaker Mati Diop explains how she gives stolen African artifacts a voice in her "fantasy documentary" film.

FERNANDO POO, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 1860. The reports from the Bight of Benin confirm the atrocities carried on by the King of Dahomey. Slaves are sold at Whydah in quantities, and American vessels ...

Squid Game’ is back with new sadistic trials, an inventive documentary reckons with Benin’s colonial past, and other titles ...

the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen. Inspired by true events, The Woman ...

In her latest hybrid documentary, Dahomey—which won the Golden Bear at Berlinale this year—she exorcises the spirit of artifacts looted by the French from the West African kingdom of Dahomey between ...

France decided to return a portion of the artefacts they had plundered from the former African kingdom of Dahomey, now Benin.

to Dahomey, a documentary that follows 26 royal treasures of the Kingdom of Dahomey as they leave Paris to return to their country of origin in the present-day Republic of Benin. The award ...

In her Berlinale Golden Bear winner Dahomey, French-­Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop charts the return of 26 artefacts looted from the African kingdom of Dahomey as they make their way back from ...

Benin will receive a throne taken in 1892 from the palace of Behanzin, the last king of what was then Dahomey. Senegal will get a sword that belonged to a 19th-Century sheikh. Former colonial ...