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Mati Diop’s documentary Dahomey wins top prize at Berlin film festival
Film about first major return of looted treasures to Africa beat the work of several veteran directors
The 41-year-old Senegalese-French director’s one-hour film, Dahomey, follows a hoard of 26 treasures on their 2021 return journey from Paris to Benin, from where they were looted by French forces almost a century and a half earlier. Handing the best director to Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias’s Pepe, an entertaining but also decidedly experimental art film about a Pablo Escobar’s cocaine hippos, further cemented that profile. Made by a collective of four young film-makers, the documentary follows Palestinian activist Basel Adra and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, who form an unlikely alliance to document the community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation.
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