Movies: Mati Diop

  • 2024
    Dahomey

    Dahomey (2024)

    Dahomey

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    Thousands of royal artifacts of Dahomey, a West African kingdom, were taken by French colonists in the 19th century for collection and display in Paris. Centuries later, a fraction returned to their home in modern-day Benin. This dramatized documenta...

    Dahomey
  • 2019
    Atlantics

    Atlantics (2019)

    Atlantics

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    Arranged to marry a rich man, young Ada is crushed when her true love goes missing at sea during a migration attempt — until a miracle reunites them....

    Atlantics
  • 2022
    Both Sides of the Blade

    Both Sides of the Blade (2022)

    Both Sides of the Blade

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    Jean and Sara have been living together for 10 years. When they first met, Sara was living with François, Jean’s best friend and an admirer from back when he played rugby. Jean and Sara love each other. One day, Sara sees François in the street. He d...

    Both Sides of the Blade
  • 2012
    Simon Killer

    Simon Killer (2012)

    Simon Killer

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    A recent college graduate flees to Paris after a break-up, where his involvement with a prostitute begins to reveal a potentially dark recent past....

    Simon Killer
  • 2009
    35 Shots of Rum

    35 Shots of Rum (2009)

    35 Shots of Rum

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    A widower and her daughter witness the retirement of a colleague of his and the closing of her department at her university....

    35 Shots of Rum
  • 2024
    Queens of Drama

    Queens of Drama (2024)

    Queens of Drama

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    It's 2055 and Steevyshady, an obsessive Mimi Madamour stan, tells us of their idol’s mad destiny from the very peak of her career in 2005, all the way down to the pits of hell, a downfall brought about by her love story with punk icon Billie Kohler. ...

    Queens of Drama
  • 2009
    Atlantiques

    Atlantiques (2009)

    Atlantiques

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    Short lo-fi film set in Senegal. Mostly focussing on a group of Senegalese youths, discussing their hopes and fears concerning the crossing of the atlantic to get to Europe. Will life be easier there or not?...

    Atlantiques
  • 2014
    Fort Buchanan

    Fort Buchanan (2014)

    Fort Buchanan

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    Four seasons to tell the fluctuating moods and mores of a small community that shares its daily chores and life experiences in the military base of Fort Buchanan. In this imagined (perhaps dreamed?) location, peculiar habits respond to the needs of ...

    Fort Buchanan
  • 2020
    In My Room

    In My Room (2020)

    In My Room

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    Made during confinement, "In My Room" plunges us into the poignant story of a woman at the twilight of her life, through recordings of the director's deceased grandmother. Living rooms become stages where life is performed. Windows become portals to ...

    In My Room
  • 2016
    Hermia & Helena

    Hermia & Helena (2016)

    Hermia & Helena

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    Camila, a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York to attend an artistic residency to develop a Spanish translation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Upon her arrival, she begins to receive a series of myste...

    Hermia & Helena
  • 2011
    Snow Canon

    Snow Canon (2011)

    Snow Canon

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    February in the French Alps. Vanina likes to hear the chalet’s parquet floor squeaking beneath her bare feet. Vanina likes to coat herself in sunscreen cream in front of the fireplace. Vanina likes the tawny fur of her rabbit. But above all, what Van...

    Snow Canon
  • 2012
    Big in Vietnam

    Big in Vietnam (2012)

    Big in Vietnam

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    Film following a Vietnamese director's wanderings through Marseille after her lead actor goes missing. Karaoke, beach sunrises and diaspora reminiscences....

    Big in Vietnam
  • 2010
    Les Révélations 2010

    Les Révélations 2010 (2010)

    Les Révélations 2010

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    Every year, the family of cinema is growing by welcoming a young and new generation of actresses and actors, who loudly declare their passion for film....

    Les Révélations 2010
  • 2015
    L for Leisure

    L for Leisure (2015)

    L for Leisure

    5.72015HD

    A dreamy, ironic comedy about a generation of hedonistic students in the 1990s. Their favourite activity: talking endlessly. During a series of vacation days filled with sun-drenched naps, squabbling, waterskiing competitions and love-making, the ama...

    L for Leisure
  • 2019
    30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille

    30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille (2019)

    30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille

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    For the 30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille about thirty directors have done us the honor of offering us some very beautiful short films....

    30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille
  • 2013
    A Thousand Suns

    A Thousand Suns (2013)

    A Thousand Suns

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    In 1972, Djibril Diop Mambety shoots "Touki Bouki." Mory and Anta are in love. Two young lovers share the same dream: to leave Dakar for Paris. At the fateful moment, Anta embarks. Mory stays alone on quay, unable to tear himself away from his land. ...

    A Thousand Suns
  • 2011
    Another World

    Another World (2011)

    Another World

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    1915. Louis, aged 17, arrives on Reunion Island to find his father, Count Kerdiguen. He has built himself a new family with Salima, his native partner, and their daughter Sita. Between the white and native communities, tensions are increasingly mount...

    Another World
  • 2011
    Sleepwalkers

    Sleepwalkers (2011)

    Sleepwalkers

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    Corsica, summer 2009. Pascal, a young medic indulges in his boredom and melancholy between the hospital corridors and streets of the city. Mustapha an illegal worker at a hotel in the center of the island is forced to go underground. Between the two,...

    Sleepwalkers
  • 2015
    Liberian Boy

    Liberian Boy (2015)

    Liberian Boy

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    Jules had been hard at work rehearsing the steps to "Billie Jean" for the end-of-the-year show. That same year, he jumped onstage in the middle of a post-rock concert, took off his shirt, leapt into the crowd. That’s when we started to film him. Then...

    Liberian Boy
  • 2017
    Olympus

    Olympus (2017)

    Olympus

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    Full moon above the city of Paris. A young man crosses the city neighborhoods on his bike, when elsewhere a group of distinguished young people that seem to come from another planet, stroll, smoke and chat....

    Olympus