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Dahomey

2024

When France returns a handful of royal treasures looted from the kingdom of Dahomey more than a century earlier, their homecoming to modern Benin sparks reflection and fierce debate about heritage, memory, and all that was lost. Mati Diop's essayistic documentary.

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