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Screening: DAHOMEY (2024)

Thu Oct 23, 2025 4:30 p.m. — Fri Oct 24, 2025 4:29 p.m.
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Loria Center, LORIA 250
190 York Street New Haven, CT 06511
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  • All Ages

DCP | 2024 | Directed by Mati Diop | FRANCE SÉNÉGAL BÉNIN | 68 minutes | Ewe, French, and English with English subtitles

 

Thousands of royal artifacts of Dahomey, a West African kingdom, were taken by French colonists in the 19th century for collection and display in Paris. Centuries later, a fraction returned to their home in modern-day Benin. This dramatized documentary follows the journey of 26 of the treasures as told by cultural art historians, embattled university students, and one of the repatriated statues himself.

 

Winner of the Golden Bear for Best Film at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale)

 

Post-screening conversation in english

 

Presented by Yale French department.