Fall film festivals introduce new Best International Feature contenders, and provide a second wind for certain frontrunners ...

The Franco-Senegalese film director accompanied the repatriation of Dahomey’s 26 royal treasures from the Quai Branly Museum ...

Baseball, murder, the politics of art, and the art of teaching are on display in the city’s prime showcase for ambitious ...

In addition to Costa’s “Apocoplypse in the Tropics” and Wang’s “Night is Not Eternal,” this year’s MFF doc film competition ...

Standout selections include “Nickel Boys,” the Mumbai-set “All We Imagine as Light” and the documentary “Dahomey,” about ...

When you think of blockbusters, the first thing that comes to mind might not be a 215-minute postwar epic screening for the first time at Lincoln Center. But that was the scene ...

The five nominees are: Sofia Exarchou’s Animal, Mati Diop’s Dahomey, Gints Zilbalodis’ Flow, Oksana Karpovych’s Intercepted and Leonardo van Dijl’s Julie Keeps Quiet. The nominations ...

In recent years, the Beninese government has been using its cultural heritage to boost tourism. This has resulted in the return of 26 royal treasures from France in November 2021. Against this ...

A new musical has opened to audiences in Benin. "The Throne of Béhanzin" tells the story of a king's journey to power, battle for his country and eventual exile to Martinique by colonial ruler ...

In her award-winning documentary Dahomey, director Mati Diop imagines the voice of royal treasures looted from West Africa by European colonisers and only recently sent back to their homeland in ...