Join the OKCMOA Film Society on Thursday, December 5, for a discussion of the year in cinema led by President and CEO Michael J. Anderson, PhD, and Director of Film Programming Lisa Broad, PhD.
Following the discussion is a special preview screening of French Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop’s acclaimed documentary Dahomey. Winner of the Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear and an early contender for both the Best Documentary and Best International Feature Oscars, Dahomey gracefully blends nonfiction and poetic flourishes as it traces the historic repatriation of 26 royal treasures from France to Benin.
EVENT SCHEDULE
6:30 pm | Catering by Running Wild + cash bar in the Museum Lobby
7 pm | Film screening and discussion in the Noble Theater
ABOUT THE FILM
Dahomey
Mati Diop | 2024 | In English, French and Fon with English subtitles | 68 minutes | NR | DCP
“The African kingdom of Dahomey, which ruled over its region at the west of the continent until the turn of the 20th century, saw hundreds of its splendid royal artifacts plundered by French colonial troops in its waning days. Now, as 26 of these treasures are set to return to their homeland—now within the Republic of Benin—filmmaker Mati Diop documents their voyage back. As with her layered, supernaturally tinged Atlantics, Diop takes a singular approach to contemporary questions around belonging in our postcolonial world, transforming this rich subject matter into a multifaceted examination of ownership and exhibition, and employing multiple points of view, including—most strikingly—those of the artifacts themselves as they sail in darkness over the ocean to their rightful home. Alternating images of nocturnal melancholy and debates among students at Benin’s University of Abomey-Calavi about what should be done with the objects, Dahomey brilliantly negotiates a lost past and an unsure present. Winner of the Golden Bear at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival. An NYFF62 Main Slate selection. A MUBI release.” -New York Film Festival
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