DAHOMEY
Screenings from 22 October
|Reclaim The Frame Partner Cinemas
Next up for #ReclaimTheFrame... DAHOMEY written and directed by Reclaim The Frame alumni Mati Diop. Join us and our partners at MUBI and The New Black Film Collective as we celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth and the films release with special events across the UK.
Time & Location
Screenings from 22 October
Reclaim The Frame Partner Cinemas
About the event
Winner of the coveted Golden Bear prize at the 2024 Berlinale, DAHOMEY is an immersive and astounding work of art from Mati Diop – director of the award-winning Atlantics. Delving into real perspectives on far-reaching issues surrounding appropriation, self-determination and restitution, this acclaimed documentary is a poetic look at a seldom-discussed history.
Taking place in November 2021, the film takes as its subject 26 royal treasures of the Kingdom of Dahomey, which, along with thousands of others, were plundered by French colonial troops in 1892. As these artifacts are due to leave Paris to return to their country of origin: the present-day Republic of Benin, Diop questions how they should be received in a country that has reinvented itself in their absence, using ethereal voiceover and footage of debating students at the University of Abomey-Calavi to offer multiple perspectives.
By turns invigorating and thought-provoking, Diop’s latest uses compelling non-traditional storytelling techniques to powerfully bring the past into the present, offering an affecting though altogether singular conversation piece that is as spellbinding as it is essential.
#ReclaimTheFrame with a preview event, creative workshops and post-screening conversations!
Tuesday 22 October | Institute of Contemporary Arts (London)
In collaboration with The New Black Film Collective; Preview + Post screening conversation
Friday 25 October | Showroom Cinema (Sheffield)
Screening + Creative workshop facilitated by Ella Barrett of Bantu Archive
Friday 25 October | FACT (Liverpool)
Screening + Post-screening conversation
Saturday 26 October | Dukes at Komedia (Brighton)
Screening + Post-screening conversation
DAHOMEY is presented with Descriptive Subtitles and all live elements will be live captioned.
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