Dahomey | LUX Audience Awards

See the two of the shortlisted finalists for this year인터넷바카라�s LUX Audience Awards this season at Scandinavia House! On March 7 we인터넷바카라�ll be screening Dahomey, Mati Diop인터넷바카라�s riveting documentary about the 2021 repatriation of royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey to the present-day Republic of Benin.

In November 2021, 26 royal treasures of the Kingdom of Dahomey are about to leave Paris to return to their country of origin, the present-day Republic of Benin. Along with thousands of others, these artefacts were plundered by French colonial troops in 1892. But what attitude should the Beninese adopt to their homecoming, in a country that had to forge ahead in their absence? The debate rages among students at the University of Abomey-Calavi.

인터넷바카라�Open-ended, fecund with imagination and ideas, never hectoring or lecturing, not so much posing questions as asking what questions might be posed: Mati Diop인터넷바카라�s film is a marvelous provocation인터넷바카라� (Deadline).

This event has been organized by the European Parliament in partnership with Scandinavia House.