Dahomey ( Dahomey//, Senegal, Benin, France, 2024, 67 min.)
Poetic documentary is a French-senegal režiserke Mother Diop (Atlantique), is the voice of the artefaktom, who is in exile in childbirth France, returning to his home country of Benin, and listens to the young, while the debate on the importance of this historical event.
Directed and written by Mother Diop
Photo: Jos Animatphine Drouin Viallard
Edited By: Gabriel Gonz / Edutlez
Text for artefact No. 26: Makenz / Orcel
Festivals, awards: Berlinale (the golden bear); award of the lumière for the best documentary; ZagrebDox (prize of the Movies That Matter); it is one of the top five documentaries of the year according to the National Board of Review; nominacija for the european film award for best film and the best documentary; Cinéma du Réel; the Cinema of the Island; Toronto; New York; AFI Fest; and San Sebastián; Busan; London; São Paulo; Viennale; IDFA; Liffe; senegalese nominee for an academy award
Distribution: Cinemania group
Genre: documentary
Story
9. november 2021. Twenty-six dahomeyan valuables will soon leave Paris and return to the land of origin, present-day Benin. The items, along with thousands of others, were confiscated at the invasion of French colonial forces in 1892. Their 130-year captivity is now coming to an end …
Comment
"Mother Diop, with curiosity, imagination and intelligence, tackles a crucial moment on the choppy timeline of post-imperial cultural politics. He conceives his excellent hybrid documentary, short but forceful, as a thin lever that opens a sealed box of colonial history, bringing out hundreds of related erasures and injustices to light. / ... / The image created by the film is much more voluminous and complex than one could conclude from its 68-minute duration. / ... / Dahomey is a striking and exciting example of poetry that arises when the dead and dispossessed speak to and through the living.«
Jessica Kiang, Variety Show /
Dahomej ( Dahomey , Senegal, Benin, Francija, 2024, 67 min.)
Poetični dokumentarec francosko-senegalske režiserke Mati Diop (Atlantique) daje glas artefaktom, ki se iz izgnanstva v Franciji vračajo v svojo domovino, Benin, ter prisluhne mladim, medtem ko razpravljajo o pomenu tega zgodovinskega dogodka.
Režija in scenarij: Mati Diop
Fotografija: Joséphine Drouin Viallard
Montaža: Gabriel González
Besedilo za artefakt št. 26: Makenzy Orcel
Festivali, nagrade: Berlinale (zlati medved); nagrada lumière za najboljši dokumentarec; ZagrebDox (nagrada Movies That Matter); eden petih najboljših dokumentarcev leta po izboru National Board of Review; nominacija za evropsko filmsko nagrado za najboljši film in za najboljši dokumentarec; Cinéma du Réel; Kino Otok; Toronto; New York; AFI Fest; San Sebastián; Busan; London; São Paulo; Viennale; IDFA; Liffe; senegalski kandidat za oskarja
Distribucija: Cinemania group
Žanr: dokumentarni
Zgodba
9. november 2021. Šestindvajset dahomejskih dragocenosti bo kmalu zapustilo Pariz in se vrnilo v deželo izvora, današnji Benin. Predmeti so bili skupaj s tisoči drugih zaplenjeni ob vdoru francoskih kolonialnih sil leta 1892. Njihovo 130-letno ujetništvo se zdaj bliža koncu …
Komentar
»Mati Diop se z radovednostjo, domišljijo in inteligenco loti ključnega trenutka na razburkani časovnici postimperialne kulturne politike. Svoj izvrsten hibridni dokumentarec, kratek, a silovit, zasnuje kot tanek vzvod, ki odpre zapečateno škatlo kolonialne zgodovine, iz nje pa na dan privre na stotine z njo povezanih izbrisov in krivic. /…/ Podoba, ki jo ustvari film, je veliko bolj obsežna in kompleksna, kot bi lahko sklepali iz njegovega 68-minutnega trajanja. /…/ Dahomej je presunljiv in vznemirljiv primer poezije, ki nastane, ko mrtvi in razlaščeni spregovorijo z živimi in preko njih.«
Jessica Kiang, Variety
