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Summary
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.
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Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+24)
Critics 91Audiences 67GoodWatch 79
Tomatometer97%
Metascore85
Letterboxd · 39 K ratings3.7/5
IMDb6.7
User score5.9
Running time
1 h 8 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 documentaries, −28 min on the typical 96
typical 9668Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 85 countries
+75Released
2024
September 11, 2024
2 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
French
Original language
Also spoken
EnglishEweMade in
France
Senegal
César Awards2025
- Best Documentary Film2025Nominated
Directing · 3
- Mati Diop Director, Writer, Producer, Casting
- Christophe Nanga-Oly Second Unit Director
- Gildas Adannou Assistant Director
Production · 6
- Christiane Chabi Kao Executive Producer
- Eve Robin Producer
- Judith Lou Lévy Producer
- Marco Tulio Pires Production Manager, Producer
- Olivier Père Co-Producer
- Ama Ampadu Associate Producer
Camera · 5
- Joséphine Drouin-Viallard Director of Photography
- Yannick Casanova Additional Photography
- Wens Chabi Camera Operator
- Geff Attintegla Assistant Camera
- Juliette Barrat Camera Operator
Editing · 2
- Gabriel Gonzalez Editor
- Gilles Granier Colorist
Sound · 13
- Dean Blunt Original Music Composer
- Wally Badarou Original Music Composer
- Nicolas Becker Sound Designer
- Guillaume Clément Music Supervisor
- Cyril Holtz Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- Sylvain Malbrant Sound Editor
Lighting · 1
- Raffet Houessou Gaffer
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