Award-Winning Filmmaker Shines Light on Injustice of Looted Benin Art
French Senegalese Filmmaker Mati Diop's documentary "Dahomey" won the best film award, the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival. Diop, the first black director ever to win the Golden Bear, explains why she wanted to tell the story of the 26 artworks that were looted by French colonial troops in 1892 from Benin and the impact of their return from Paris to the West African Kingdom.
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