The Musée du Quai Branly is a long ark of a building perched over a garden, whose foliage screens the museum from its busy namesake thoroughfare on the banks of the Seine. Literally overshadowed by ...
Mati Diop, niece of the late, great Senegalese cinema pioneer Djibril Diop Mambéty — director of African cinema classics “Touki Bouki” and “Hyènes” — makes her feature film directorial debut with ...
EXCLUSIVE: What role do cultural artifacts play in shaping our identity, and to what extent have they been used to animate campaigns of violent subjugation? Those are just two of the many questions ...
With her directorial debut 'Atlantics' accepted into the competition lineup, Mati ?Diop is the first black female director in the Cannes competition. By Rebecca Ford Mati Diop was deep into ...
CANNES, France (AP) — Mati Diop was initially disappointed when she, by reading a news article, discovered that she was the first black female filmmaker in the Cannes Film Festival's prestigious ...
The first black women director ever to compete for the top prize at Cannes in its 72-year history took its second prize Grand Prix Saturday for her haunting ghost story about African migrants. Mati ...
The biracial daughter of a Senegalese father and French mother, raised in France, Diop has found her voice in Africa. There have been several films chronicling on African migration — specifically, ...
MK2 has unveiled a clip for Mati Diop‘s “Atlantics” ahead of its world premiere in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Diop, a French-Senegalese filmmaker, is the first black woman to ...
Diop has been a festival favorite for years, but her Cannes slot raises her profile in a major way. Previously titled “Fire Next Time” (although not based on James Baldwin’s famous essay collection of ...