The seasonal differences of the movie calendar have eroded a little bit with time. Neither of the last two Oscar juggernauts ...

Wednesday, September 20, 2024, as part of the 266th anniversary of the birth of Emperor Jean-Jacques Dessalines (September 20 ...

From the “Joker” sequel and Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan biopic to a handful of festival darlings, it’s a jam-packed season.

With every streamer chasing the celebrity-driven biopic documentary, some in the doc space are afraid the bubble is about to ...

Benin especially has a storied history of powerful and prolific women leaders. In the Kingdom of Dahomey, now present-day Benin, the women Amazons were an all-female military unit that served as ...

Senegal has selected French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop’s Golden Bear-winning contemporary doc Dahomey as its submission ... including the famous Amazon women (Agodjié).

Dahomey, the award-winning documentary by Mati Diop, imagines the voices of royal treasures looted from West Africa by European colonizers and returned only recently to their homeland, present-day ...

Films by Mati Diop, Raoul Peck and Mike Leigh, among others, mesh the personal and political in engrossing, insistent ways.

For those who know little about the subject matter, ‘Dahomey’ is a bold and memorable history lesson.” The review continues, “Filmmakers reflecting on ceramics as a symbol of colonial ...