“Superb, short but potent … DAHOMEY is a slim lever that cracks open the sealed crate of colonial history, sending a hundred of its associated erasures and injustices tumbling into the light … a striking, stirring example of the poetry that can result when the dead and the dispossessed speak to and through the living.”
—Variety

Mati Diop (ATLANTICS) follows the return of 26 sacred artifacts plundered by the French in the African kingdom of Dahomey from a museum in Paris to their home in modern-day Benin. Diop imagines the historical, spiritual, cultural, and emotional significance of the return from multiple perspectives, including from the objects themselves.