A long-silent voice from a distant past — eerie and reverberating — awakens in the climate-controlled, antiseptic chambers of a Paris museum. The forum through which this entity communicates to us is ...

Diop's documentary, screening at the Berlin Film Festival, follows 26 artifacts, which were looted in the 19th century from the kingdom of Dahomey, as they return to Benin from France. By Mia Galuppo ...

Art museums are strange places. White-walled and hushed, they offer a sort of refuge from the demands of a volatile world, giving their patrons a rare opportunity for sustained aesthetic contemplation ...

The documentary film "Dahomey" is a story of return, the restitution of stolen royal treasures. The 26 artifacts were among thousands taken by French colonial troops in the late 19th century from the ...

Mati Diop examines the fate of 26 treasures — sometimes from their point of view — looted from Benin in 1892. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through ...

Since the documentary’s cameras stopped rolling, plans for a new museum to showcase the treasures have stalled, and the artifacts are once again off limits to the public in Benin. By Elian Peltier ...

Exclusive: The Oscar contender will continue on the festival circuit with TIFF and NYFF screenings. Set in November 2021, the Golden Bear-winning film charts 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of ...

EXCLUSIVE: What role do cultural artifacts play in shaping our identity, and to what extent have they been used to animate campaigns of violent subjugation? Those are just two of the many questions ...