With Dahomey, winner of the Golden Bear at the 2024 Berlinale, Mati Diop has created a powerful testimony of the restitution of 26 objects from the kingdom of Benin by following their trajectory from Paris to Nigeria and giving agency and voice to the looted objects.

In her debut feature film Atlantique (2019), she focuses on the living and working conditions in Dakar and the specters of violence connected to the migration between North Africa and Europe. Combining documentary methods with impulses of the supernatural and horror genre, she approaches one of the most pressing and violent issues of a crisis that transcends national borders.

The screening of Atlantique, one of 13 films from Senegal in the distributor’s portfolio, will also allow to highlight the work of trigon-film, an important distribution company that specializes in promoting filmmaking from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Founded in 1988 and based in Ennetbaden, trigon-film builds bridges between the history of “Third Cinema” and contemporary World Cinema Practices.

5 May 2025, 20:30

Kino Toni

ZHdK, Toni-Areal, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8005 Zürich

The screening is open to the public. This event is part of an ongoing cooperation between the SNSF-funded research project Paranational Cinema – Legacies and Practices at the Department of Film Studies, University of Zurich and the Master Cultural Critique in Curatorial Studies at Zurich University of the Arts.