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Oscars: Senegal Submits Mati Diop’s Golden Bear Winner ‘Dahomey’ For International Feature Film Race
‘Dahomey’ won the Golden Bear at this year's Berlin Film Festival.
Diop’s doc opens in November 2021 as twenty-six royal treasures from the former Kingdom are about to leave Paris to return to their country of origin. The film is also the first project from Fanta Sy, the Dakar-based production house Diop quietly launched earlier this year with her creative partner Fabacary Assymby Coly, a Senegalese industry veteran. “The idea is also to use my network to help the films we support be shown in festivals and distributed around the world,” Diop told us about the company during an exclusive interview in May.
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