PMA Films: Dahomey (with Chief Curator Shalini Le Gall)

In 2021, 26 objects from the Kingdom of Dahomey leave Paris and are returned to present-day Benin. How should these art treasures, stolen from ancestors, be received in a country which has reinvented itself in their absence?

Running Time: 68 minutes (plus discussion)
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Language: French with English subtitles
Country of origin: France, Senegal, Benin
Director: Mati Diop

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